Art in Miami: Untitled 2017

At the 2017 UNTITLED Art Fair, students of the FIU Honors College assisted in a recreation of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall, presented by the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark. The collaboration was coordinated by Jane Crawford, Jessamyn Fiore, Omar Lopez- Chahoud, and John William Bailly.

The FIU students collected marine debris from the island of Chicken Key of the Deering Estate over several months. They brought this debris to the UNTITLED fair and worked under the guidance of Jane Crawford and Jessamyn Fiore to construct Garbage Wall.

“Students from Florida International University made the Untitled version of Garbage Wall using trash collected in the water at the Deering Estate, located about 25 miles south of Miami Beach. A lot of the debris from Hurricane Irma drifted south, and you can see in the wall things like soda and beer bottles, flip-flops, a tennis ball, a clothes hanger, and a buoy. But the wall also tells stories specific to Miami. There is a water jug that likely fell from one of the rafts used by Cuban migrants traveling illegally to the United States. And there is an illegal lobster trap—the students plan to return to the Deering Estate, to remove the traps they found there.” Sarah Douglas in ARTnews

Read about Garbage Wall and FIU in ARTnews
“Exactly What Kind of Trash Is on View at the Untitled Fair?” by Sarah Douglas
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/exactly-kind-trash-view-untitled-fair-9449/