Artist Maria Builes wants to make sure you are tuned in to Twitter today. The location for her Art Basel pop-up exhibit, "Satiation," will be announced only on the day of and only through tweets.
Builes's "Satiation" is a commentary on our obsession with food, weight loss, and appearance. She will park a U-Haul truck at a random location in Miami and proceed to do what most of us would consider insane, and others just another workout.
While Builes sweats her point across, we will be regaled with images of her munching down on fast food through videos playing on a projector screen. As you watch Maria chowing down on greasy, calorie-laden food, you realize why she was overweight before, and why lots of Americans still are. "I am reenacting [what was] my everyday meal."
She considers her novel approach to exhibiting her work during Art Basel, to be pop-up art. "This was my answer to being frustrated. By not getting a gallery, you can't have a show. With the truck, people can come here. That's why Twitter comes into place. Depending on where I park the truck, that will be the location."
The transplanted 305 native has noticed that while the Miami art scene just keeps growing, when she hears about our galleries, they are the same names that she hears in NYC. "They are transporting. It's a Miami/New York thing." For specifics, follow Maria on Twitter.
