Driftwood
Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza
June 10 – September 7, 2010
Main Library, Auditorium, 101 W. Flagler Street, Miami – 305-375-2665
Reception and film screening: Thursday, June 10, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Artists Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza propose that Miami’s salvage yards serve as a kind of diagram for shifts in the city. Discoveries of objects discarded in mass quantities, like analog televisions, pink toilets, and neon ceramic tile reveal changes in the culture, values, functions and aesthetics of a place. Moreno and Oroza will create a flat, graphic environment in the civic space of Main Library’s auditorium exploring the “urban process in which things designed for one particular function are used for another.” A special tabloid produced for the exhibition functions as patterned wallpaper, space demarcation, and as a vehicle for essays and other materials that expand or question the conceptual scope of the exhibition.
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