MDC Hialeah - Art Gallery Exhibition - Vulnerable Maps

Join us at MDC Hialeah for an opening brunch showcasing Vulnerable Maps, a unique and thought-provoking exhibition featuring the work of E. Martin Fierro and J.M. Pozo. The exhibition will open on March 8th and run through March 24th.

The Miami Dade College Hialeah Campus Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Vulnerable Maps (2025), featuring works by E. Martin Fierro (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, 1965) and J.M. Pozo (Holguín, Cuba, 1967). This exhibition, supported and coordinated with the Centro Cultural Español in Miami (CCEMiami), includes recent works in painting, drawing, and installation, highlighting the pictorial and discursive affinities shared by these artists. The exhibition will be part of the program of exhibitions and cultural art events for the XI International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, which will take place in Miami from March 6 to 29.

In Vulnerable Maps, E. Martin Fierro and J.M. Pozo reflect on history, memory, and recollection, exploring their relationship with the concepts of borders, frontiers, and limits, approached with a sensitivity that plays with the personal biography of each artist.

Curated by Dennys Matos and directed by Noor Blazekovic, Vulnerable Maps emphasizes how the works of both Martin Fierro and Pozo generate imagery through the overlapping of different layers of content. Décollage, as a break or tear that deepens the thickness of one pictorial image over another, is an important reference in their respective works. But also, part of their expressive repertoire are the hybridizations between painting and photography, revealing transparencies of materials and essential objects in the construction of meaning. Their discourse focuses on the relationship between history and memory, reinterpreting the displacements that imply, in the circumstances of the global village, concepts such as borders, frontiers, limits, and the sociocultural resonance of their representation in the languages of contemporary art.

About Emilia Martín Fierro
Emilia Martín Fierro (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1965) is a visual artist and also a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of La Laguna, Tenerife. Over the course of three decades, she has held numerous solo and group exhibitions, including recent ones: "Recent Memory. Contemporary Practices in the CAAM Collection," Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria, Spain (2024), curated by Cristina Déniz, Mari Carmen Rodríguez, and Beatriz Sánchez; "In-betweenness," solo exhibition at LnS Gallery, (2023), Miami, USA; "Between Membranes. Walking on the Edge," solo exhibition at Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (2021). Her work has been acquired by art centers such as the Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (T.E.A.), Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (C.A.A.M.), Gran Canaria, Spain. Her work uses superpositions and transparencies of pictorial, material, and photographic layers to speak about the concepts of edges, interstices, frontiers, and the difference between the dynamic nature of reality, happening, and its re-presentation.

Juan Miguel Pozo
Juan Miguel Pozo (Holguín, Cuba, 1967) belongs to that generation of Cuban artists from the 1990s marked by the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) and the disappearance of Communist Eastern Europe. His painting uses objects and elements of the urban environment, extending to architecture and urbanism. Expressed in a neo-figurative language, his work plays with the overlapping of layers, relating painting, graphic art, and photography to reinterpret the codes of communication and political propaganda. He creates an imaginary where the relationship between history and memory is mediated by the autobiographical gaze of the artist. He has exhibited in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. His most recent solo exhibitions include: "Die Zukunft war ein Ort," Janine Bean Gallery, Berlin (2019); "Goliath The Man In The High Castle," Nardone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2018); "After The Storm," Galleria Estéreo, Monterrey, Mexico.

About the Spanish Cultural Center of Ibero-American Cooperation, Inc. (CCEMiami)

CCEMiami is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 with a focus on arts and culture in Spanish from all artistic disciplines, including the promotion and collaboration with artists from Latin America, Spain, and Miami. CCEMiami offers an annual, affordable program of performing arts, exhibitions, presentations, and workshops, providing a platform for dialogue and education, always inspired by the principle of freedom and respect for cultural diversity. CCEMiami's mission is to contribute to the social and economic development of South Florida by extending access to the arts to all communities, especially those with limited access to culture.

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