We are thrilled to announce that Artist André Azevedo will be the 2024 Resident and recipient of the Solo Project.

The 2023 Jury and Curatorial team included Ana Clara Silva, Jennifer Inácio, Rafael RG, Flavia Macuco, and Gene Moreno. The annual Open Call aims to attract artists who desire to enrich the arts with their practices and diversify what's already a multicultural territory: Miami and beyond.

André Azevedo's research with fabrics is part of his personal and familiar experience with this materiality. From this intimate connection, Azevedo began to understand textiles simultaneously as language, concept, and materiality, which allowed him numerous forms of interaction with the world. The starting point for realizing his works comes from the etymology of the word text and a recurring quotation among several authors: “Text means fabric and a line a thread of a linen fabric.” 

He explores the plot structure within the universe of storytelling, using notions of “following the thread,” “backdrop,” and “knotless stitch,” among other figures of speech. The fabric is an opportunity to deal with the idea that things are entangled: they follow phenomena of repetition, transmit processes, and consequently revive images. Azevedo begins with the statement that fabric is a medium because it is in between – between men and the world, and between the world and all the things it coats –and, then, makes use of different malleable media, such as books, screens, video, and sound installations.