The South Florida-based artist explores how ideas about legacy are woven into everyday actions by activating five palm trees on the MOCA Plaza with large-scale braids, adorned with beads, metal, and artificial sunflowers and gardenias.
Selected in MOCA’s 2022 Open Call to artists for its “Art on the Plaza” series, “To What Lengths” showcases a key component of VantaBlack’s artistic practice by reflecting on legacy building and preservation as foundational to Black culture and other diasporic peoples. The photographs will be accompanied by a new feature-length documentary on the Carnival providing a kinetic counterpoint to the portraits.Īlso on view is VantaBlack’s “To What Lengths,” which is open to the public on MOCA Plaza through Jan. Their stories reflect the wealth of invention, fable, and self-generated mythology prevalent in much of Haitian culture.
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The images are contextualized by a series of oral histories relayed by various troupe leaders, who also oversee the design of the costume and generate the narratives surrounding Carnival. Curated by MOCA Curator Adeze Wilford, the exhibition consists of a series of black-and-white photographs taken on a mechanical medium format camera. By doing so, William playfully and unapologetically reclaims autonomy over a fragmented record of history, engaging his personal connection to the complexity of immigrant narratives and queer identity to create opportunity for investigation and redemption.Īlso, on view through Apis “Kanaval,” a survey by photographer, filmmaker, curator, and writer Leah Gordon that documents twenty years of Carnival in Haiti. In a blend of personal reflections, biographical anecdotes, and art historical moments, some of the works in the show recontextualize historical iconographies and ideas, stripping them of their “known” truths and transforming each into something entirely new. Translated as “We’ve Left That All Behind,” the show presents an in-depth look at the Haitian-born, North Miami-raised artist’s career and memory among the very neighborhood where he once grew up. “Didier William: Nou Kite Tout Sa Dèyè” (on view through April 16, 2023) is the largest solo presentation of Didier William’s career. A Ceremony of Salutation and Libations was performed by Tanayiz Bertrand followed by a performance from the traditional Haitian Rara band, Rara Lakay. Art patrons browsed the exhibitions while enjoying live music, cocktails and canapés in MOCA’s Paradise Courtyard with MOCA’s Executive Director Chana Sheldon, artists Didier William, Leah Gordon and VantaBlack, and Curators Adeze Wilford and Erica Moiah James, Ph.D. Miami, FL – Decem– The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA) celebrated its newest exhibitions, “Didier William: Nou Kite Tout Sa Dèyè,” Leah Gordon’s “Kanaval,” and Chire “VantaBlack” Regans “To What Lengths” on Thursday, Dec. WRE News: Christian Louboutin Opening First East Coast Outlet at Sawgrass Mills.WRE News: Dwyane Wade Is The Face of New Versace Eyewear Campaign.Tod’s Bal Harbour Hosted by Chanda & Liandra.A Look at the Miu Miu X New Balance Collaboration.Stitch Lab Spring Kick-Off Cocktail Party & Fashion Show at Miami Design District.WRE Films: Stubborn Seed’s The Sunshine State.WRE Films: Yardbird Table & Bar’s Banana Pudding Cheesecake.WRE Films: CHICA Miami’s Guava Cornflake French Toast.WRE Films: Yardbird Table & Bar’s Muffuletta Sandwich.WRE News: Legendary Talk Show Host Jerry Springer Dead at 79.WRE News: Miami Unemployment Rate is the Lowest Nationwide at 1.7%.WRE News: Two Florida Bills Could Mean the End of Historic Ocean Drive.WRE News: Former Site of the Miami Herald Sold for $1.2 Billion.WRE News: Boucher Brothers & Major Food Group to Present New Lease Proposal For Nikki Beach.Q&A: Kieth McNally & Stephen Starr’s Pastis Opens in Wynwood.Q&A: The Royal Arrival of Queen Omakase.Ludacris, Kaskade with Alec Monopoly and DJ Five Star at Fontainebleau ‘Miami Race Nights’.Diddy, Fabolous, City Girls, & London on da Track at LIVONSUNDAY.Miami Grand Prix Kicks Off With IWC & Lewis Hamilton.American Express Presents CARBONE BEACH Day 3.Casa Checo at La Tiendita Taqueria Pays Homage to Red Bull Racing’s Sergio ‘Checo’ Perez.J Balvin Celebrated His Birthday with Maluma & Friends at GEKKO.
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