EXHIBITED WORKS
Upstairs Gallery, Warehouse 17, La Fuerza Compound
Sunken Playground
by Keiye Miranda
May 9 to June 6, 2009
In her previous exhibits, Keiye Miranda portrayed artificial bodies of water as sanctuaries of the urban life where people, their backs usually turned on the viewer, seem to be absorbed with the recreational moment or are deeply unified with liquid depths. In "Sunken Playground," the swimming pools are still there but this time useless and abandoned, any trace of those who once enjoyed them painfully and palpably absent. Painted in black and white, her works are the more mysterious in their state of waterlessness or disrepair, as if one were viewing them from the smokescreen of memory. As a critique of modern-day life, the paintings exhibit the temporal amusements we employ to guard us from the large existential questions. As the artist’s glimpses of a heart-rending vision, they are affective and pivotal in their evocation of time’s ruining hands.
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