On Jan. 29, the Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery in Pembroke Pines hosted an opening reception for two new audiovisual art exhibits by Ecuadorian artist Edison Peñafiel and Argentinian artist Adrian Sosa.
The art pieces explore topics of labor and lived experiences. Sosa’s “Habitar una nube” — “To Inhabit a Cloud” — uses video to showcase labor as a bodily condition rather than a symbolic object.
Meanwhile, Peñafiel’s “Me pongo el sol al hombro y el mundo es amarillo” — “I Carry the Sun on My Shoulder and the World Turns Yellow” — features a large-scale installation composed of suspended painted curtains that encourage visitors to walk through and watch scenes of figures resting, departing, and lingering in moments of transition.
Sophie Bonet, the chief curator at the Ortiz Gallery, felt honored to have brought everything together.
“It’s just such a rewarding experience,” Bonet says. “From idea, from something ephemeral, through completion is just incredible.”
The pieces will be available for the public until April 11.
