YoungArts Celebrates Opening of Mateo Nava Installation at Bay Parc Apartments

Photography by Pavle Janjic on March 6th, 2019 in Lifestyle

Luisa Munera, Mateo Nava, & Edouard Duval-Carrie

Miami, FL – March 6, 2019 – The National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts), in partnership with Aimco, celebrated the opening of the second of six art installations as part of an artist residency program with a reception and art talk at Bay Parc Apartments featuring artist Mateo Nava (2013 YoungArts Winner in Visual Arts & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts). YoungArts members, Bay Parc residents and guests enjoyed wine and hors d’oeuvres, and received a warm welcome from Tanner D. Sheehan, Aimco’s Regional Property Manager, followed by an art talk between Mateo Nava and artist, curator and YoungArts master teacher Edouard Duval-Carrié, moderated by YoungArts Exhibition Manager Luisa Múnera. The conversation introduced the audience to Nava’s new installation “Known by no name”—on view to the public at Parc Space at Bay Parc—and explored topics such as research processes, mentorship, iconography, immigration, identity and cultural heritage. With “Known by no name,” Nava presents four large-scale painting installations that imagine the human body as a series of geographical landscapes and explore the relationship between identity and place of origin through the use of patterns that depict cartographies and bloodlines simultaneously. Notable attendees of the evening included Daniel Arsham Fellow and YoungArts alumna Paloma Izquierdo, Pérez Art Museum Miami curators María Elena Ortiz and Jennifer Ignacio, Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator’s Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Tile Blush Director Fernanda Torcida, Angela and Andy Amendola, Susset Cabrera, Karina Diehl, Paloma Duenas, Kevin Michael, and the artist’s family and students from Design and Architecture Senior High.