Faena Festival: The Last Supper

Sophia Al-Maria, Yael Bartana, Myrlande Constant, Gabriel Chaile, Lulo Demarco, Jim Denevan, Camille Henrot, Zhang Huan, The Propeller Group, Christian Jankowski, Lunafridge, Francis Mallmann, Jumana Manna, Jillian Mayer, Ana Mendieta, Pedro Neves Marques, Emeka Ogboh, Paul Qui, Grethell Rasúa, Faith Ringgold, Martha Rosler, Jamilah Sabur, Osías Yanov

Free and open to the public. For details about each site-specific installation and an event schedule please visit: bit.ly/2P5S67K

Faena Festival: The Last Supper is an exploration of spirituality and food, abundance and sacrifice, indulgence and abstinence, and archetypal symbolism and contemporary aesthetics.

The Last Supper will include: new commissions by Sophia Al-Maria, Gabriel Chaile, Myrlande Constant, Emeka Ogboh, Osías Yanov and Jamilah Sabur; installations by Camille Henrot, Zhang Huan, and The Propeller Group; an LED billboard boat on the waterways of Miami, which will serve as a platform for mobile video installations by Jillian Mayer and Ana Mendieta; a Cinema Series with nightly screenings by Yael Bartana, Christian Jankowski, Jumana Manna, Pedro Neves Marques, Grethell Rasúa, and Martha Rosler; and a Supper Series, featuring culinary activations and shared meals by Jim Denevan, Lunafridge, and Francis Mallmann and Paul Qui, among others.

Curated by Zoe Lukov, Chief Curator at Faena Art, the Festival takes the pulpit and the kitchen as its point of departure, invites us to break bread together, and posits the shared meal or prayer as the crux of social interaction and communal connectivity. The works in the Festival are dialectical, simultaneously object-based and immersive, sacred and profane, and laden with tradition along with contemporary expressions of spiritual practices. The works establish a multiplicity of viewpoints surrounding our ceremonial rituals and objects, and their broader roles within cultural imaginings and narratives from around the world. The experiential presentation and curatorial format will occupy and engage with the entire Faena District.

“Art and spirituality have been linked forever—objects have always been made with intention, imbued with symbolism, and have acquired power and capital from the significance applied to them. Feasting and fasting, traditions that we have developed around shared meals and shared spiritual experiences, are often the bedrock of our lives, from the wafer and wine that were the body and the blood, to the ‘bread and circuses’ that marked imperial decadence, to the sanctity of one’s right to a last meal, or the offerings we leave our ancestors. We have often turned to spirituality or food for solace and healing, and this Festival wants us to catch the spirit,” said Lukov

Alan Faena stated, “I created the Festival to be an incubator for new talents and ideas that inspire me, a space for connectivity, and to support artists to realize their dream projects, push limits and blur boundaries across artistic disciplines, and ultimately to generate new dialogues, narratives, and experiences.”

The Last Supper will feature seminal works and newly-commissioned installations and performances by renowned and emerging artists throughout the Faena District:

FAENA FORUM

A collection of video installations that occupy the liminal space between the image an the physical, between this world and the next – an immersive experience in video that insist on a radical repositioning and involvement from the viewer.

Sophia Al-Maria

The Propeller Group

Camille Henrot

FAENA HOTEL

Site-Specific new commissions in public spaces of the Faena District that explore the relationsips between ancient ceremonial totems and fetish objects and contemporary aesthetics. From Constant’s ritual Vodou flag to Chaile’s functional ovens and supplicant sculptures that reference pre-Columbian aesthetics.

Myrlande Constant

Gabriel Chaile

FAENA BEACH

The ephemeral, the cyclical, the connection and transition between body and spirit – the monumental yet evanescent, forever changing and often invisible. From the prayer-filled incense ashes of Zhang’s Buddha to Ogboh’s micro brew and sound installation.

Zhang Huan

Emeka Ogboh

Lunafridge

Jim Denevan

MOVING BOAT ON THE OCEAN

The LED billboard boat – known for interrupting lazy beach days with advertising- is repurposed as a new format for mobile video installations.

Janine Antoni

Jillian Mayer

Ana Mendieta

Jamilah Sadur

Antonia Wright

Osías Yanov

BOAT STATIONED on 34th St

FAENA HOTEL SCREENING ROOM

Free, open to the public, nightly screenings at the open air cinema on the beach and the hotel.

Yael Bartana

Andrea Buttner

Christian Jankowski

Jumana Manna

Pedro Neves Marques

The Propeller Group

Grethell Rasúa

Martha Rosler

Faith Ringgold

SUPPER SERIES

The Last Supper would be incomplete without culinary interventions that reimagine what a dinner experience can be. Working with Denevan’s monumental open air circular table, chefs and artists bring us food for body and soul.

Jim Denevan

Lunafridge / Madeleine Botet and James Davis

Francis Mallman + Paul Qui

Outstanding in the Field

TALK SERIES

Women in the World