Caribbean-Themed Installation At Art Fair

November 27, 2024 | 0 Comments

Lisa Howie and Vanessa Selk will produce a regional Art & Design event during the upcoming Miami Art Week.

A spokesperson said, “Many have come to know Bermudian Lisa Howie as the force behind Black Pony Gallery, which focuses on contemporary visual artists from the Caribbean Mid-Atlantic region. Ms. Howie is also the co-founder of Atlantic Arthouse. For the second year, she and Miami-based business partner Vanessa Selk will produce another regional Art & Design event during the renowned Miami Art Week, this time at Untitled Art Fair.

“Atlantic Arthouse is proud to present French-Caribbean designer duo dach&zephir for the first time in North America with a creole installation titled In Between Rèpriz and Konpozisyon: A Space for Caribbean Cultures and Communities at Untitled Art Fair Miami, from December 3rd to December 8th, 2024. This immersive project explores the layered histories, identities, and creativity of Caribbean culture through contemporary art and design, created during a residency at Fountainhead.

“The installation draws on the concepts of Rèpriz [reclaiming and remaking] and konpozisyon [recomposing and hybridizing], which reflect the adaptability and resilience inherent in Caribbean cultural practices. Inspired by Martinican philosopher Édouard Glissant’s creolization concept, In Between Rèpriz and Konpozisyon highlights the dynamic weave of entanglements arising from Native American, African, Asian, European, and Middle Eastern traditions. The result is a celebration of cultural hybridity and diversity that defines Caribbean experience.

“Through visual collages, textiles, objects and symbolic materials like seeds and beads, dach&zephir create a metaphorical and physical space that bridges past and present. The installation challenges conventional narratives, transforming everyday objects and forms into artifacts that tell a story. By fostering a dialogue that spans East to West, the work celebrates the richness of Caribbean identity while inviting viewers to reimagine the region’s cultural landscape.

“As part of Atlantic Arthouse’s curated 2024 program, dach&zephir are in residence at Fountainhead, Miami, throughout November, immersed in research and production. The residency will culminate in an Open House on November 29th at Fountainhead, where visitors will have the opportunity to engage with dach&zephir’s creative processes and explore their residency work.

Program

Fountainhead Residency
Open House: Nov. 29th, 2024, 7:00-8:30pm
690 NE 56th Street, Miami

Untitled Art Fair, Miami – Booth SP14
Dec. 4th – 8th, 2024, 11:00am-7:00pm
Ocean Drive and 12th Street, Miami Beach

About dach&zephir

“Graduates of the National School of Decorative Arts of Paris, Dimitri Zephir and Florian Dach founded their creative studio dach&zephir in 2016. Mixing fervor and poetry, their contemporary creations celebrate the creole cultural heritage from the French Caribbean while integrating other cultures, therefore echoing the thinking of Martinican poet Édouard Glissant on creolization. For the duo, History and personal stories are starting points in design, acknowledging that objects are mediums for our minds. Through historic textile collages, lamps incorporating indigenous plants or seeds, rugs woven in celebration of black hair, their productions aim at revealing to the world the historic and cultural specificities of Caribbean territories.

About Atlantic Arthouse

“Co-founded by Lisa Howie & Vanessa Selk, Atlantic Arthouse is a collective of galleries, collectors, artists and designers and art & design professionals to facilitate access, acquisition and understanding of Aart &and Ddesign from the Caribbean Mid-Atlantic. Through an online advisory platform and upcoming e-commerce mothership focusing entirely on contemporary Art & Designart and design from the Caribbean Mid-Atlantic, as well as yearly on-site program curated during Miami Art Week, Atlantic Arthouse aims at diversifying and decolonizing the international art & design market.

Cultural Partners

“We thank our cultural partners for this collaboration: Fountainhead, Untitled Art Fair, La Station Culturelle and The TOUT-MONDE Art Foundation.”

Montage by Youna Esposito, 2024, using details of Filet de pêche, Le Vauclin, Martinique, courtesy of Denise Colombe and In between rèpriz and kompozisyon concept illustration #1, courtesy of dach&zephir.