El Kilómetro (km) announced that they will be at Untitled Miami Beach 2023 (Booth A35) with artwork by Puerto Rican artists Rogelio Báez Vega and Awilda Sterling-Duprey, including performances by Sterling-Duprey. This event opens on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, at 11:30am (EST), and runs through Sunday, December 10, 2023. Untitled Art Miami Beach is located at Ocean Drive and 12th Street, Miami Beach, Florida.
Awilda Sterling-Duprey: As part of the special project, Awilda Sterling-Duprey will be performing a continuation of her Blindfolded dance-performance/drawings series (2020-ongoing), where the artist/choreographer/dancer blindfolds herself to create abstract marks on papers mounted on walls in response to salsa and/or jazz improvisation.
Fusing Afro-Caribbean dance, music, drawing, and performance, Sterling-Duprey translates the music through her body into dance movements on the paper´s surface with sharp actions and a sense of playfulness. The currents of sound are drawn by expressing dance and improvisation of tonal and chromatic scales from salsa and jazz.
This year, the artist has created an extended number of 9 blindfolded drawings with the title “Après Duval-Carrié,” based on explorations made during her residency at Mass Moca, in Massachusetts (2023). This series explores the work of the Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrié, inspired by rara, a traditional genre of Haitian music and dance. Sterling-Duprey alludes to her relationship with ancestrality and the feeling of belonging of afro Caribbean cultures as the existent interstitial between the communication of humans with the divine.
Rogelio Báez Vega: “Experiencing Paradise” by artist Rogelio Báez Vega, focuses on the representation of modern and iconic Puerto Rican hotels, abandoned in fictional coastal surroundings. By presenting this selection of structures in ruins, exposed to the sea and erosion, the artist focuses his reflection on the exoticism of the Caribbean landscape as a tourist destination. It exposes the island´s dependency on the tourism industry and the visitor economy by contrasting the idealized image of tourist paradise with the reality of living in Puerto Rico.
“Báez´s paintings are constructed with dense layers of paint and beeswax that alter the original appearance of structures, creating a new architectural space overtaken by secondary ecological processes of succession and change.”
A change rooted in the violent clash between the exuberant tropical flora vs the abandoned structure in decay. Through the exhibition and dystopic reinterpretation of these iconic hotels, Rogelio Báez Vega hopes to build an omen of future landscapes.
[Shown above: Awilda Sterling-Duprey, “Après Duval-Carrié” (After Duval-Carrié). 32 in. x 26 in. Oil Crayon, paper, and pastel on fabric (2023) and Rogelio Báez Vega. Experience Paradise: Hotel La Concha, San Juan, PR. 72 in. x 48 in. Oil, beeswax, gold pigment, veneer on canvas (2023).]
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El Kilómetro (km) announced that they will be at Untitled Miami Beach 2023 (Booth A35) with artwork by Puerto Rican artists Rogelio Báez Vega and Awilda Sterling-Duprey, including performances by Sterling-Duprey. This event opens on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, at 11:30am (EST), and runs through Sunday, December 10, 2023. Untitled Art Miami Beach is located
