DESIGN MIAMI. 2023 Special Project
Nifemi Marcus-Bello, Omi Iyọ, 2023
Featured Designers
Nifemi Marcus-Bello
Omi Iyọ/ DESIGN MIAMI. 23 curatorial director Anna Carnick invited Nigerian designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello to create a special work in response to this year’s curatorial theme, Where We Stand. Marcus-Bello’s resulting piece, Omi Iyọ (meaning salt water in Yoruba), calls attention to the journeys of undocumented migrants from Africa to Europe. Salt flows from the hull-shaped mirror, serving as a poetic marker honoring the very real human toll of this crisis.
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Featured Designers
Nifemi Marcus-Bello
Oríkì (Act II). Marta is pleased to present Oríkì (Act II): Tales by Moonlight, an exhibition of functional sculpture by Lagos, Nigeria-based artist and designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello. Act II of Oríkì continues its exploration of identity, materiality, and craft production, presenting a collection of formally-related typologies of seating, tabling, presentation, and spatial division rendered in sand-cast aluminum.
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Marta is a gallery that hosts works at the meeting points of art and design. Founded in Los Angeles in 2019, the gallery makes space for artists to experiment with the utility of design, and for designers to explore the occasional abandonment of function. Marta’s curatorial and publication programs take interest in both the process of an object’s creation as well the narrative of its creator(s). Marta embraces the intersection of disciplines, advocates for diversity in design, and promotes access to the arts.
Designers
Nifemi Marcus-Bello
Minjae Kim
Bennet Schlesinger
Wentrcek Zebulon
A History of Frogs
Ross Hansen
Jonah Takagi
Benjamin Critton and Heidi Korsavong
DirectorsLos Angeles
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