PINTA MIAMI 2025: THREE PROPOSALS REIMAGINING TERRITORY, BODY AND COMMUNITY
In its new edition, Pinta Miami reaffirms its role as a vital anchor of Miami Art Week. Curated by Irene Gelfman, the fair presents three projects that explore—through distinct approaches—the shifting relationships between landscape, identity, and collective experience.
Pinta Miami has been a central landmark in the cultural calendar of the city. From December 4–7, 2025, artists, collectors, and enthusiasts will gather at Dinner Key in Coconut Grove for a fair that not only celebrates Latin American art but expands its visibility and possibilities within Miami Art Week. This edition features three standout proposals that reimagine connections between territory, the body, and community: the topographic and affective research of ALA Projects with Laura Castro; the narratives of power, resistance, and memory presented by Aura through Renan Teles and Uýra; and Body as Instrument, the performance cycle by Robertha Blatt, which transforms collective experience into a form of shared knowledge.
ALA Projects – Laura Castro: Fragmentation and Affective Geography
Dominican artist Laura Castro presents a body of work rooted in the study of fragmentation, territorial morphology, and the emotional relationship between body and landscape in the Caribbean. Her practice blends collage, abstraction, and topography, using planes, grids, and points to evoke the ruptures of borders and the fractures of collective memory.
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Ala Projects at Pinta Miami
For Castro, organic forms and textures operate as emotional extensions of territory. The breaks of the island and those of her own life mirror each other, shaping her gestures and material decisions. ALA Projects foregrounds her contribution to contemporary Caribbean abstraction, where history, affect, ecology, and identity converge.
Aura – Renan Teles and Uýra: Photography, Power, and Resistance
Aura brings a dual presentation of two highly institutionalized artists whose practices connect to photography from very different trajectories.
Renan Teles, an Afro-Indigenous artist from Itaquera (São Paulo), uses his personal journey to address representation, body, and access within the art world. He began with digital tools due to their affordability, later developing a manual photo-transfer technique, and eventually moving toward painting during the pandemic. In his recent abstractions, the thick layers of paint become a political declaration—an assertion of material access once out of reach. Teles is a Magnum Foundation awardee and a participant in the São Paulo Biennial.
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Aura at Pinta Miami 2025
Uýra, born in Santarém, merges art, performance, ecology, and activism. Trained in biology and ecology, she uses her practice to educate audiences about environmental and social crises in the Amazon, particularly in Manaus and among the ribeirinhos, whose lives are impacted by polluted rivers and precarity. Known as “the tree that walks,” she blends body and nature to expose devastation and highlight Indigenous struggles. Her trajectory includes the Pinacoteca, MASP, Reina Sofía, MAMBO Bogotá, and major museums across Europe and Latin America.
Body as Instrument – Robertha Blatt: The Body as Shared Space
Born in Rio de Janeiro and based between Miami and Rio, Robertha Blatt is an artist, educator, and psychologist whose multidisciplinary work explores the intersections between art and therapeutic processes. Through installations, photography, video, performance, and participatory actions, her practice investigates how bodies relate to materiality, space, and communal environments.
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Body as Instrument – Robertha Blatt at Pinta Miami 2025
In Guri Guru, part of her Body as Instrument cycle, a mobile textile device is activated by anonymous participants across museums and public areas. Drawing from Hélio Oiticica’s “plurisensory” propositions, the work suspends fixed identities and invites new ways of occupying space through sensation, memory, and intuition. Blatt’s community-centered projects at institutions such as PAMM and Barry University expand authorship into a fluid, shared, and transformative experience.
The 19th edition of Pinta Miami will take place from December 4 to 7, 2025, at The Hangar, Coconut Grove, FL (United States).
*Cover image: Uýra, Apossemática, 2018. Photo Selma Maia.
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