LATIN AMERICAN TEXTILE ART AND KINETICISM CONVERGE IN CALERO'S EXHIBITION IN MIAMI
Curated by Katherine Chacón, Movement in Suspended Time activates a surface that evokes the loom as originary matrix, transposing onto the picture plane the tension between artisanal tradition and abstract modernity.
This Thursday, Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA) will inaugurate Movement in Suspended Time, an exhibition by Venezuelan artist Patricia Calero (Valencia, Venezuela, 1985), curated by Katherine Chacón, as part of the Miami Fiber Triennial (MFT). The work proposes an approach that articulates geometric abstraction with the foundations of weaving, at a moment when textile art has reclaimed undeniable relevance within the contemporary landscape.
In Chacón's words: "Her compositions do not merely incorporate materials associated with the textile realm — they operate from the very logic of weft and warp: tension, interlacing, repetition, and structure. Nylon and polypropylene ribbons, arranged with precision on the canvas, activate a surface that recalls the loom as originary matrix, transposing onto the picture plane a memory that belongs equally to artisanal tradition and abstract modernity."
"This dialogue intensifies when the work is placed in relation to the legacy of Latin American Kineticism. Modern inquiry into dynamic perception finds in Calero's practice a contemporary reinterpretation," the curator adds.
Movement in Suspended Time introduces a reflection on one's relationship with time. It proposes a pause within the city's accelerated rhythm and invites viewers to slow their gaze, allowing it to become a truly sensory event. "This idea takes form in these harmonious compositions, which enable the coexistence of a rigorous structure and subtle shifts — lights, shadows, and nuances that appear and recede — generated by the tensions and torsions of the ribbons in relation to the viewer's movement, and by the artist's measured use of restrained color ranges," Chacón explains.
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Patricia Calero. Foto: Yisus
Patricia Calero is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the relationships among movement, time, space, and perception. Self-taught and closely aligned with the languages of kinetic art and contemporary geometric abstraction, her work enters into dialogue with the Venezuelan tradition embodied by masters such as Carlos Cruz-Diez and Jesús Soto. Also influenced by Japanese aesthetics and philosophy, she incorporates materials and principles from the textile sphere to develop compositions that generate dynamic processes of visual transformation through rhythm, repetition, and color, as well as subtle effects of light and shadow activated by the viewer's movement through space. Her work has been presented in numerous international exhibitions and art fairs, particularly in the United States, where she has developed much of her recent career.
Movement in Suspended Time will be on view from June 11 to July 24, 2026, at Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA), located at 5900 NW 74th Ave, Miami, United States.
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