THIRD SPACE Inventing The Possible

THIRD SPACE  Inventing The Possible

This visual story is one that has not yet been told. Not because there is no storyteller to tell it, but because it exists only in fragments each assuming its own autonomous existence removed from the constraints of mainstream history.

THIRD SPACE  Inventing the Possible is the story of visual artists who defy their otherness and enter the realm of 21st century aesthetics not only to lay their historic claim on it, but also to challenge the framework which defines and polices its boundaries. This exhibition engages Miami artists in their articulations of the lines of continuities. What comes out is that we do not cease to be related simply because separated by race, nationality or color.

Thu 09.25.14   |   7-9pm | MOCA OPENING RECEPTION – THIRD SPACE  Inventing the Possible

Thu 09.25.14 – Su 11.02.14  |  MOCA EXHIBIT – THIRD SPACE  Inventing the Possible

Fri 09.26.14 | 8pm  |  Jazz at MOCA  |  8pm Featuring Kiki Sanchez Latin Jazz Project

Sat 09.27.14 | 2pm  |  MOCA Contemporary Dialogues  |  In Their Own Words

Wed 10.01.14 | 7pm  |  MOCA Moving Images  |  Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra

Catalog for the exhibition, Third Space Inventing the Possible at Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, September 25 – November 2, 2014.Third Space features over 23 artists. The eighth page reads: The History of Miami is still being written according to a dated framework in which only a unicentric view of aesthetics is privileged. This privilege is achieved by the arbitrary removal of other people’s culture from the dynamics of historical continuity. Third Space: Inventing the Possible’s argument is not only to denounce this unicentric ideology, but also to interrogate the nature of this narrative to reveal the underlying myth which disguises these contradictions. Artists participating include: Alma Leiva, Edna Marrero, Juana Valdés, Yanira Collado, Mary Valverde, Aramis O’Reilly, Ernesto Oroza, Nicolas Guillen Landrian, Carlos Sandoval de León, Maria Magdalena Campos Pons, Purvis Young, Charo Oquet, Charles H. Nelson Jr./ Kevin Skipp, Jose Bedia, Onajide Shabaka, Gustavo Roman, Ralph Provisero, Jorge Pantoja, Manuel Mandive, Alejandro Aguilera, Ana Mendieta, Tomás Esson, and Glexis Novoa.