Coming Up From The Blood at Pérez Art Museum Miami

Photography by Daniel Rodriguez on September 23rd, 2021 in Lifestyle

Ciara Janay Hendrix, Surayyah Muhammad, Christell Victoria Roach, Arsimmer McCoy, & Maritza Lacayo

Miami, FL – September 23, 2021 – On September 23, visitors joined at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) for COMING UP FROM THE BLOOD, a program inspired by the exhibition “The Artist as Poet” and the combinatory nature of André Breton’s poème-objet.

COMING UP FROM THE BLOOD is an occasion of language, allowing the surreal to manifest in space and place – just as text and object “excite each other” in the exhibition. The poet presents the self as art, engaging in an intimate act of translation. In a classic call and response, each artist journeys through emotional, spiritual, and physical dialogues between the self and the artwork, bringing forth language true to land, lineage, and liberation.

These artists respond to the fictive dreamscape of “The Artist as Poet” by embracing the conjure in creation, the multidimensionality of reality, and the serendipity of the surreal. Each poem is complete through its delivery and engagement, presenting the poem as an event- or series of events – making up COMING UP FROM THE BLOOD.