Exhibitions_Agnes — Julie Spielman

Agnes

Organized by Gladys-Katherina Hernando

Hernando’s Way, Miami FL
May 14th - October 23rd, 2022

Press Release

Hernando’s Hideaway for the first time presents two solo exhibitions in its spaces: R. Geste: Agnes, a new work for the Sculpture Lawn and an installation by Carlos Rigau: Endless Everglades in the Garage Gallery. The works by the artists connect Hernando’s spaces by way of nature and ruin. Though aesthetically and conceptually distinct, their materials and language reference the temporality of the landscape and foundation surrounding them.

Working under a pseudonym, Los Angeles based artist R. Geste hand-loomed an 8-foot abstract pattern with text in Churro Wool using a traditional Navajo weaving style and displayed on two monolithic columns constructed from deteriorated and partially destroyed cast concrete Breeze Blocks. The weaving pattern on large tapestry is angular yet organic, echoing the signal marks of static noise, while its deep blues, yellow, greens, and browns harken the tail feathers of a Peacock or of moss, present only in their suggestion. Collected from the home in the neighborhood, the decorative Breeze Blocks take on a new life as the support structure for the weaving and make architectural its scale. The arrangement of the broken blocks mimic patterns of historical midcentury design and architecture. Notably known as Miami Modernism, reclaiming and reinventing the use of this once popular design material, now discarded for trends. R. Geste’s Agnes fills the sculpture lawn with the atmospheric absence of sound and of history passed.