UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach, Dec 4,5,6,7,8, 2019. Osman Can Yerebakan’s Dispatch | Miami Beach, Dec 8, 2019
Osman Can Yerebakan’s Dispatch | Miami Beach, Dec 8, 2019 Art Spills Outside Booths and Taps Into Politics Today I’ve looked outside the booths and talked to artists whose works go outside the white walls and prompts critical discussion around national identity and labor. Positioned at entrance to UNTITLED, overlooking the South Beach is Ruben Millares and Antonia Wright’s It’s not down on any map; true places never are (presented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles), a motorized public sculpture made out of flagpoles, chains, a steel platform, and 16 flags of countries currently involved in migration crises, such as Venezuela, United States, South Sudan, Myanmar, Turkey, Germany, and Mexico. Rotating in a steady half loop, the chain structure moves the flags up and down, creating a metallic machinery noise as the flags ascend, squeeze through the chains, and rise again. Flags which have traditionally been placed on high ends of dwarfing poles are upsid