Get To Know: Harold Mendez

Showing now at ICA Miami is the Harold Mendez exhibition, And, perhaps, here, between. It runs through 5/1/22. Mr. Menendez is from Columbian and Mexican heritage, which informs his work with both ancestral and diasporic traditions.

A MacArthur Foundation cultural exchange to Cuba gave him the opportunity to visit the grave of an artist who was an early influence, Belkis Ayón. He documented the search and the discovery of the grave, as well as ritual objects and other ceremonial cites. Prints from this series were then combined with layers of graphite, charcoal, and figerglass which, in turn, inspired additional photographic works and also sculptural objects. Also in the exhibition you will see cast sculptures, and found objects such as the one-ton counterweight found in Captiva Florida during a residency at a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation event in 2016.

—Via the ICA Miami website announcing the exhibition, Gean Moreno, Director.

Afterwards, we shall read your bones-for Belkis Ayón (detail), 2012. Mixed media, Collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, from the Surface Magazine article describing the exhibition