MIAMI-DADE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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.
www.mdpls.org / [log in to unmask] / 305.375.5048
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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