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SUPERFLEX, Kwassa Kwassa, 2015. Commissioned by Beaufort Beyond Borders 2015 and Marrakech Biennale 6. Supported by Danish Art Council. Courtesy the artists, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, and 1301PE Gallery, Los Angeles.
Exhibition
Project Gallery: SUPERFLEX
21 Oct 2016 – 23 Apr 2017
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 14:00 – 21:00
Address
- 1103 Biscayne Blvd
- Miami
Florida - 33132
- United States
This exhibition presents Kwassa Kwassa, a film created by the Danish artist collective, SUPERFLEX.
About
Focusing on small, handmade fishing boats—the kwassa kwassa of the title, which translates to “unstable boat,” their construction, and the voyages they enable, the film is a visual meditation on migration, economy, citizenship, and history. It takes as its subject the Comoro Islands, an archipelago in the Mozambique Channel off the southeastern coast of Africa, comprised of islands that are both independent and under French rule.
Through evocative narrative and lush imagery, SUPERFLEX conjures a contemporary myth in this project—making the peculiarities of colonization and geography seem fantastical and allegorical. Their work interrogates questions of economic and social inequality between the so-called first- and developing-worlds, while seeking to reframe migration and movement across the powerful but invisible borders that shape our world as acts of resistance. Project Gallery: SUPERFLEX marks the North American debut of this film.
