Still there are seeds to be gathered
March 8, 2023 — March 31, 2023
Miami Design District (Miami, FL)
Still there are seeds to be gathered presents the work of eighteen women artists — Joyce Billet, Rose Marie Cromwell, Carolina Cueva, Bernadette Despujols, Giannina Dwin, Naomi Fisher, Nereida Garcia Ferraz, Marina Font, Amy Gelb, Jeanne Jaffe, Carol Jazzar, Rhea Leonard, Amanda Linares, Jillian Mayer, Juli Morsella, Shawna Moulton, Smita Sen, and Nina Surel — from Miami whose practices suggest an iconology of female bodies. Their works explore corporeality through painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and performance, representing (or employing their own) bodies as fragments, vessels, and collective voices.
The exhibition title quotes the final sentence from Urusla Le Guin’s “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” (1986), which proposes that vessels — and not weapons — were the primary tool for the evolution of humankind. The history of our survival is hereby seen as a by-product of our ability to contain and protect, transforming the understanding of our own unfolding into an anti-epic, non-linear narrative. The works in this exhibition contain, disrupt, provoke, and nurture, sugggeting a universe of disparate, but related experiences.
