Oolite Arts Studio Shorts series; Marielle Plaisir speaks of her French-Caribbean heritage and her artistic practice.
Category: Miami
Miami, Florida
WOMEN GEOMETERS
The exhibition Women Geometers, organized by the Atchugarry Art Center in association with Piero Atchugarry Gallery and curated by Adriana Herrera.
The artists gathered in Women Geometers are (in chronological order of birth): Loló Soldevilla (Cuba, 1901-1971), Gego (Germany, 1912- Venezuela 1994), María Freire (Uruguay, 1917-2015), Mira Schendel (Switzerland, 1919- Brazil, 1988), Regina Aprijaskis (France, 1919- Perú 2013), Lygia Clark (Brazil, 1920), Lygia Pape (Brazil, 1927-2004), Zilia Sánchez (Cuba, 1926), Mercedes Pardo (Venezuela, 1921-2005), Lia Bermúdez (Caracas, 1930), Fanny Sanín (Colombia, 1938) and Lydia Okumura (Brazil, 1948).



| Atchugarry Art Center June 29 – September 14, 2019 5520 NE 4th Ave. Miami, Fl. 33137 305 639 8247 miami@pieroatchugarry.com pieroatchugarry.com |
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Downtown Miami, 062619, 6:40 pm.
“I like being able to stop when I like, to lean against a building and make a note […]. Walking, paradoxically, allows for the possibility of stillness.
Walking is mapping with your feet. It helps you piece a city together, connecting up neighbourhoods that might otherwise have remained discrete entities, different planets bound to each other, sustained yet remote. I like seeing how in fact they blend into one another, I like noticing the boundaries between them. ” Lauren Elkin, in her wonderful Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London via BP
One more quote from Elkin,
“[…] walk[ing] […] confers — or restores — a feeling of placeness. The geographer Yi-Fu Tuan says a space becomes a place when through movement we invest it with meaning, when we see it as something to be perceived, apprehended, experienced.
I walk because, somehow, it’s like reading. You’re privy to these lives and conversations that have nothing to do with yours, but you can eavesdrop on them. […]
You walk in the city side by side with the living and the dead [my emphasis].”






