Allora & Calzadilla unveil new commission at ICA Miami
27 November 2017
Similar to previous pieces by Allora & Calzadilla, including their recent performance-based installation Black Out at Lisson Gallery London, Unspecified Promise combines sculpture with performance art. Audience members become performers as they move around the mirror-like granite, their shapes and perspectives changing in the reflection. The mirror, the artists say, gives the impression that the whole machine is there. “So many promises are illusions, and we’re trying to make that tangible,” Jennifer Allora said in a recent interview with the New York Times.
ICA Miami will inaugurate its new permanent building with 'The Everywhere Studio', a scholarly thematic exhibition exploring the importance of the artist's studio. Works by Art & Language, Rodney Graham, Giulio Paolini, Joyce Pensato and Laure Prouvost are included.
The new museum, a whitewashed, three-story-high building with floor-to-ceiling hurricane-proof windows overlooking a garden of sculptures, palms and native Florida trees and shrubs, was designed by Aranguren + Gallegos Architects in Madrid.
