Miami Dérive: Walking with Adler Guerrier, BURNAWAY

Burnaway magazine published a text by Ade J. Omotosho. It is generous of its subjects.

We passed through rows of the winsome, modest single-story homes that line the streets, vivid in their mamey pinks, robin’s egg blues, and other confectionery colors that comprise the city’s unmistakable palette. Lately Guerrier has been fascinated with the creation of what he calls “immigrant space” within Miami’s neighborhoods, and he is developing a film project centered on this phenomenon. For instance, much has been made of the way that people of the African diaspora adorn and furnish domestic spaces, but relatively less of how we fashion exterior space, which Guerrier believes is an equally viable realm for families to “insist on” their presence and sensibilities.

Omotosho was a curatorial fellow at Pérez Art Museum Miami.