Compared to its sister smaller Miami Art Week Shows NADA and Pulse, UNTITLED this year seemed to have relatively fewer works with overt political themes. The one exception was a focus on the environment. A few artists’ work with plants emerging or taking over humans’ faces or their tools seem to be a visual rejoinder to the book The World Without Us. Coral Projects, a special project of the Benrubi Gallery, showed continuous loop video of their explorations of how to create art in a sustainable manner. Sculptures made of debris from Everglades that decompose and return to the land and swamp are an example. By this writer’s lights, however, the sculptural works made of debris floating in our oceans displayed at Design Miami/Basel Miami gives the art community a better road map of how to bear witness to the pains of our planet.
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