the island
OHWOW/LAND
Flagler Memorial Island
Miami Beach, Florida

The island is a single-evening exhibition/event, organized by Shamim M. Momin, Director/Curator, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) and Aaron Bondaroff/Al Moran, Creative Directors, OHWOW, to take place on Friday, December 3rd (4:00pm – 8:00pm). Located on Flagler Memorial Island, the island presents newly commissioned installations, sculptures, multi-media works, and ephemeral interventions by 17 contemporary artist, all sited loosely within the theme of the deserted island and the implications of a space both part of and beyond civilization. Each work will be produced onsite by the artists in the week preceding the event, and overall the exhibition will infiltrate the entirety of Flagler Memorial Island, engaging directly with the geographic and logistical fluctuations present in such a variegated site. Artists being exhibited include Bozidar Brazda, Stefan Brüggemann, Scott Campbell, Brody Condon, Naomi Fisher, Michael Genovese, Luis Gispert, Adler Guerrier, Terence Koh, Kate Levant & Michael E. Smith, Hanna Liden, Justin Lowe, Kori Newkirk, Jack Pierson, Marina Rosenfeld, David Benjamin Sherry, and Rona Yefman.

Invited guests, which include artists, collectors, curators, and other esteemed members of the art community, will be given a designated departure point at the Mondrian Hotel (South Beach) where boats will transport them to the island. As the exhibition experience is one of exploration, guests will receive maps that will help guide them as they trek -- through tropical foliage, sandbars, and into the very water itself -- to discover each work. This single-evening exhibition/event will be punctuated by performances and audio events, and guests will be invited to enjoy cocktails and music at the Mondrian Hotel throughout and after the exhibition. The exhibition will exist only for this one special moment, and will thereafter disappear, ghostlike and mythical, into the landscape. About LAND: Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) was founded in 2009 by Director Shamim M. Momin, former contemporary curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Christine Y. Kim, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, as a non-profit public art organization committed to curating site- and situation-specific contemporary art projects.

“Michael Genovese is a multimedia artist interested in process, manipulating durable and static materials, such as metal and wood to explore ideas of transformation. Release and Let it Go features a capsized wooden porch, modeled from those characteristically attached to mobile homes, beached and semi-submerged in water (increasingly so as the tide rises throughout the exhibition). First built, burned, and sealed with resin, the presentation of this work is the final chapter in the transformative process informing it, as the bay takes some of the sculpture with it.”

Momin, Shamim. the island, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Exhibition Catalog
https://nomadicdivision.org/exhibition/the-island/