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17/11/2015

Nari Ward

Perez Art Museum Miami - PAMM, Miami

In the fall of 2015, Pérez Art Museum Miami will present a mid-career retrospective of Nari Ward (b. 1963, Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica; lives in New York). This exhibition, Sun Splashed, will be the largest survey of the artist’s work to date and will offer a close consideration of his diverse production. Sun Splashed will examine Ward’s career through interrelated frameworks that reveal the ongoing investigations, both material and intellectual, that have guided his practice across more than 20 years. Rather than chronologically, this exhibition will be organized around vital points of reference for the artist, including urban space, performance and the body, the dynamics of power and politics, ideas of migration and movement, vernacular traditions, and his native Jamaica.

Ward’s practice is defined by its embrace of varied media and in particular the recurrent use of found objects, which imbue his works with a tactile and visceral relationship to history and the real world. The ambitious scale of his works and his continued experimentation with new materials and media will be brought to the fore in this exhibition, which will feature mixed-media collages, photography, assemblage, sculpture, interactive works, video, and architectural installations.

The exhibition's title is drawn from a recent series of photographs that references a Jamaican reggae festival popular in the late 1970s. Moving across distinct time periods and geographies, these images reflect the humor and touristic clichés implied in their titles, but also suggest a more complex understanding of the relationship between place and selfhood, particularly in "sun splashed" tropical locales. Self-conscious destabilization of meaning and keen attention to context run throughout Ward's practice and open up the possibility for new perspectives on the pressing questions that inform our place in the world.

In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, on Saturday, November 21, at 2pm, Ward and exhibition curator Diana Nawi will deliver a eulogy for artworks that have been destroyed over the course of Ward's 20-year practice. This performative talk is a meditation on labor, leisure, and remembering.

Sun Splashed is accompanied by a fully illustrated bilingual (English/Spanish) exhibition catalogue that includes new texts by Nawi, Naomi Beckwith, Erica Moiah James, Ralph Lemon, and Philippe Vergne.

Nari Ward: Sun Splashed is organized by Pérez Art Museum Miami Associate Curator Diana Nawi. This exhibition is presented by Citi with generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support was received from the Funding Arts Network. Valuable support for the exhibition catalogue was provided by Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins, and Havana, and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong. Additional in-kind support provided by Gander & White.

Image: Nari Ward Savior, 1996 Plastic garbage bags, cloth, bottles, shopping cart, metal fence, earth, wheel, mirror, chair, and clocks. 128 x 36 x 23 inches.

Press contact:
Alexa Ferra 786-3455619 aferra@pamm.org

Preview and reception November 18 2015, 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Pérez Art Museum Miami
1103 Biscayne Blvd Miami, Florida 33132
hours:
Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 9pm
Monday closed
Admission:
Adults $16
Seniors (62+ with ID) $12
Students (with ID) $12
Youth (ages 7-18) $12
Children (under 6) Free

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