Perez Art Museum in Miami is hosting an exhibition “Project Gallery: SUPERFLEX” that will be on view through April 23, 2017.The exhibition presents ‘Kwassa Kwassa (2015),’ a film by the Danish artist collective, SUPERFLEX, marking the North American debut for the film. SUPERFLEX is a collaborative unit of Danish artists Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen, and Bjonstjerne Christiansen, who has been working together since 1993, focussing on socio-economical models, corporate structures, and systems of politics, finance, and production. ‘Kwassa Kwassa’ focuses on small, handmade, unstable fishing boats and their construction and journey they take. Through stirring narrative and vibrant imagery, the film represents the irregularities of colonization and geography as fantastical and allegorical, raising the question over the economic and social imbalance between the apparent first-and-developing worlds, while seeking to reframe migration and movement across the powerful but invisible borders that shape our world as acts of resistance. Taking the Comoro Islands as its subject, an archipelago in the Mozambique Channel off the south-eastern coast of Africa, comprised of islands that are both independent and under French rule, the film turns out to be a masterful and sensitive culmination of SUPERFLEX’s work till date, combining their rich, detailed style with their trenchant eye for the lived contradictions of global economy.The exhibition is on view at Perez Art Museum, 1103 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132, USA. For details, visit: http://pamm.org/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek of the project.
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