THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI PRESENTS AN INTERESTING PROJECT BY LIENE BOSQUÊ
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI PRESENTS AN INTERESTING PROJECT BY LIENE BOSQUÊ
MOCA North Miami presents HamacaS, a socially engaged project by Liene Bosquê, coordinated by Ana Clara Silva, on view from February 8 through March 29, 2020.
The project will maintain public hours on Saturdays and Sundays from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. during which the artist will be present, and will be open to anyone that would like to drop in and participate.
HamacaS explores the cultural dissonance and emotional displacement experienced by immigrants in the United States. The project consists of an interactive installation at the museum that will be activated through collective hammock weaving sessions and workshops. The project will offer a critical and expansive conversation around immigration with communities in Miami. As an integral part of the project, HamacaS will continue to develop and be presented throughout different locations in Miami after its inaugural run at MOCA North Miami.
HamacaS reconsiders the relational meaning of site and place for a group of people that both occupy several spaces at once and are rendered invisible in this country. The project asks us to imagine how immigrants carry place with them across borders and barriers. What purpose can a collective, shared space have for members of a community that is both villainized and erased at the same time? HamacaS is meant to act as a safe space for dialogue, debate, and understanding through engaging in making––the space between the hand and the mind that offers respite.
Liene Bosquê is a visual artist and art educator based in Miami. Bosquê’s artworks have been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States, at MoMA PS1 in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, among other places. Her work has been included in international exhibitions in Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, and South Korea.
