Guerrier’s multi-dimensional exhibition will employ a variety of media, including photography, drawings, sculpture, and video, to express a “psycho-geographic” narrative of a distinctive cityscape that includes an urban center, quiet neighborhoods, and a lively beachfront. Guerrier finds inspiration in the simple act of walking city streets, which he describes as a “political and poetic act.” [exhibition catalogue]
Guerrier’s exhibition is a personal reflection of Hollywood, Florida mapped architecturally from Miami-Dade to Broward Counties. Included are two videos which also provide us a visual journey of that drive on our surface streets. The drive is filled with the language and geography of south Florida, and the exhibition is mapped with art works referencing points along that route. The entire exhibition then becomes a geographic investigation using language and place.
The exhibition is made up of subtle forms that lead to objects that arise from those forms. Guerrier noted how the exhibition, though occupied with objects, doesn’t allow for the art works’ singularities to define the exhibition. No one work seems to provide a fully adequate encapsulation of the exhibition. They must be taken as a whole in much the same way individual parts of Miami-Dade and Broward Counties do not adequately represent the whole region.
There are many blank spaces between the works, but that space is not empty. The spaces are invisibly connected to each other by the mapped space from which they arise. There is very often this use of space in and around Guerrier’s work. As a way to view the work it forces us to think about what we are looking at but in a prosaic way. However, the underlying narrative(s) may be hidden from primary view. We shouldn’t worry because if we take the time, we will be able to find many revelations.
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