At Memory’s Edge
January 15th, 2022 – February 5th, 2022
Miami-based curator Luna Goldberg presents a group exhibition, At Memory’s Edge, at the Fundación Pablo Atchugarry Miami, contemplating the present dialogues surrounding the socio-political significance of monuments.
The Fundación Pablo Atchugarry Miami is pleased to announce At Memory’s Edge, a group exhibition curated by Luna Goldberg, featuring the work of Ashley M. Freeby, Efrat Hakimi, Iris Helena, and Lihi Turjeman. The exhibited works investigate monuments as wounds of the past—structures that have manipulated the built environment and how we, as individuals and a society, navigate and negotiate public space and collective memory. Yet, they also question whose voices are represented and silenced against the backdrop of our cities and urban spaces, and which narratives are deemed worthy of being fixed in history.
Monuments and memorials have long served as placeholders reinforcing certain ways of telling history. In recent years, they have made headlines as statues of former slave owners, police officers, and other power brokers have been toppled, dragged into rivers, vandalized, and removed from public space for their position as oppressive markers of white supremacy and racism. As certain states have passed laws prohibiting their removal, monuments around the nation have been destroyed, relocated to institutions and storage facilities, or replaced by new statues honoring previously unrecognized historical figures. In a moment of (inter)national reckoning with monuments and public commemoration, At Memory’s Edge invites viewers to take a closer look at fixtures in their own communities and how we respond, recover, reimagine, and redress who and what our society memorializes.
Designer, artist, and truth-teller, Ashley M. Freeby (b. 1986) uses natural materials, poetic language and minimalism to explore sites, monuments, and data as a way of investigating the essence of memory and trauma.
Efrat Hakimi (b. 1982, Tel Aviv, Israel) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Central New York and Tel Aviv. Hakimi works across technologies and crafts.
Iris Helena (b. 1987, João Pessoa – Paraiba, Brazil) is a Brasília-based multidisciplinary artist with a degree in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Paraiba, and a Master’s in Contemporary Poetics from the University of Brasília, where she is currently completing a Doctorate in Visual Arts. Helena’s research is characterized by critical, philosophical, aesthetic, and poetic investigations of the urban landscape from a dialogic approach between the image of the city and the surfaces/supports chosen to materialize it.
Lihi Turjeman (b. 1985, Tel Aviv, Israel) lives and works in Tel Aviv and Turin. She received her MFA from Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. In 2015, she was awarded the Israeli Ministry of Culture Award for Young Artists. Her large-scale painting installations are characterized by a monochromatic nature and revolve around space in its multiple forms and meanings.
At Memory's Edge is funded in part by the NWSA Alumni Foundation Inspiration Grant; Locust Projects’ WaveMaker Grants, which is part of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts ’ Regional Regranting Program; and The Ellies, Miami’s visual arts awards presented by Oolite Arts.
This project is also made possible with support from the Carlo and Micol Schejola Foundation, The Fountainhead Residency and The Fundación Pablo Atchugarry Miami.
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