atmosphere-generating juxtaposition

Beatriz Monteavaro, Tonight, We Can Be As One Tonight.

Under the Bridge.
12425 NE 13th Ave, North Miami, 33161.


The kinds of proximity that matter here are made by practices of attention not defined by dissensus or agonism but technically, by atmosphere-generating juxtaposition. This proximity dilutes what we called structural by shifting the force of the normative infrastructures from the state and commodity capitalism into the ordinary that also includes local plural intimacies and the associations that make life sticky and interesting.

Berlant

AG2026_1211969a or a continuity


Solvent transfer, graphite, colored pencil, ink, gouache, acrylic, and enamel paint on paper. 18 x 12 inches. 2026. Donated to Locust Projects’ Art Auction.


Melvin Edwards’s obituary. (Frieze)

“His travels to Ghana, Nigeria, Togo and Benin informed his understanding of sculpture as a form of cultural continuity, leading him to create public works that fused African traditions with contemporary abstraction?. “