Past Exhibition
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Miami Design District and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) present Marta Minujín: Dreamscape, the artist’s first public project in Miami. On view March 18 through 31, the installation features two of the artist’s monumental inflatable sculptures, key examples of the whimsical and multisensorial environments that have characterized Minujín’s approach to art over the last six decades.
Standing 30 feet tall in the Design District’s Jungle Plaza, Sculpture of Desires (2019) is a towering soft sculpture made of intertwined arms that form a blow-up portal. A second immersive sculpture, on view for the first time, Emotional Candy (2025) is a maze of merging hallways that aims to disorient visitors. Inside each piece, recordings of birdsong prompt participants to whisper their desires into the sculptures as they walk through them. The fluorescent patterns of these large-scale works recall Minujín’s early mattress sculptures from the mid-1960’s, which first bore the artist’s signature multicolor stripes and were meant to be entered and explored.
Born in Argentina in 1943, Marta Minujín is a fundamental artist of the ‘60s and ‘70s avant-garde movements, and a pioneer of happenings, performance and media art. After incinerating her works in Paris as part of The Destruction (1963), she championed the development of immersive and experiential environments, in works such as The Long Shot (1964) and Mayhem (1965), and became a forerunner in the practice of mass media art with Simultaneity in Simultaneity (1966). In 1983, her Parthenon of Books celebrated the return of democracy in Argentina with a critical monument to freedom of education. Throughout the years, Minujín’s practice has remained a bastion of joy as it continues to explore what the artist understands as the potential of art to “intensify experience.”
Marta Minujín: Dreamscape is conceived and co-produced by Meet People Meet Places with support from Fundación Ama Amoedo, Craig Robins and Clarice O. Tavares.
