TULSA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP PRESENTS MIGUEL BRACELI’S SOLO PROJECT ‘EMANCIPATORY LANDS’ AT UNTITLED ART IN MIAMI BEACH

Solo Exhibition and Panel Discussion Featured at Untitled December 4-8, 2024

*Enterrar las banderas en el mar. Participatory Intervention. Miguel Braceli in collaboration with students from Mejillones, Chile. SACO 8, 2019. Image courtesy of Miguel Braceli.*

November 25, 2024 – Tulsa, OK – Tulsa Artist Fellowship is proud to present 2024-2026 awardee Miguel Braceli’s solo exhibition, Emancipatory Lands, at Booth C3 during the 13th edition of Untitled Art Miami Beach. Untitled Art Miami Beach 2024 will take place Wednesday, December 4 through Sunday, December 8, 2024, with a VIP and Press Preview on Tuesday, December 3, at 12th Street and Ocean Drive.

This exhibition marks the artist’s first presentation at Untitled Art, showcasing a selection of interdisciplinary works from his ongoing Emancipatory Lands series. Emancipatory Lands is a cross-media project that explores the transformation of man-made geopolitical symbols into communal, nature-rooted structures. Through public installations, photography, and video, Braceli reimagines political identities while encouraging collective learning practices and community engagement.

On this occasion, Braceli will debut a never-before-seen large-scale installation spanning the entire booth, inspired by his 2019 performance that transformed violence into playful knowledge, using books and slingshots as symbolic weapons. Also at the booth, he will present an array of film and photography from various Emancipatory Lands projects in locales such as Chile, New York, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia. Featured works include six large-format photographs of Area (2014), documenting a participatory performance reclaiming a shared space in Caracas to challenge polarizing government narratives. Other highlights include Here Lies a Flag (2021), a New York performance where Braceli and students symbolically buried an American flag to address ongoing struggles for justice, immigration rights, and Indigenous sovereignty, and Enterrar las Banderas en el Mar (2019), which captures Chilean students descending hills to submerge flags in the Pacific, confronting nationalism and xenophobia. Imagery from other Emancipatory Lands projects – Green Chalkboard (2024, Saudi Arabia), Horizontal Monuments (2020, Mexico), and Irazú (2016, Costa Rica) – will also be on view. More details on select projects can be found here.

Regarding the mission driving Emancipatory Lands, Braceli states, “Creating self-organized and decentralized learning structures for grassroots changes is the present duty; approaching art and education as emancipatory systems to resist the increasing polarization of power.”

Braceli is a Venezuelan-born, Tulsa-based artist and educator whose work focuses on participatory art projects in public spaces. Working across rural and urban environments in both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, Braceli reinterprets the architectural symbols of states, nations, and other governmental territories through the works on view, aiming to foster an emancipatory experience through social, environmental, and pedagogical approaches to land and public space. He is a current fellow at Tulsa Artist Fellowship and will be in residency through 2026. This solo presentation at Untitled Art 2024 marks the artist’s second showcase at Miami Art Week, following his presentation of a solo project at Pinta Miami in 2018.

In addition to his booth presentation, Miguel Braceli will host a panel at the Untitled Podcast Lounge on December 4, from noon to 1:00 pm. For more information, please visit www.tulsaartistfellowship.org.

NOTES TO EDITORS

Untitled Art Miami Beach 2024
Ocean Drive and 12th Street, Miami Beach, Florida

VIP and Press Preview:
Tuesday, December 3, 10am-7pm

Opening Hours:
Wed, December 4, 11am – 7pm
Thurs, December 5, 11am – 7pm
Fri, December 6, 11am – 7pm
Sat, December 7, 11am – 7pm
Sun, December 8, 11am - 5pm

Panel Information

Miguel Braceli will host a panel at the Untitled Podcast Lounge on December 4, from noon to 1:00 pm. The discussion will focus on LA ESCUELA ___, a non-profit initiative Braceli is launching in the U.S. to foster hemispheric exchange through art and education. The organization aims to connect Latin American and BIPOC communities in the U.S., leveraging context-based creative practices, trans-local exchange, public art projects, and editorial content to strengthen hemispheric exchange among artists, researchers, curators, and educators working with socially engaged practices

Braceli will be joined by Carolyn Sickles (Artistic & Executive Director, Tulsa Artist Fellowship), Antonieta Landa (Events Manager, El Museo del Barrio), Sofía S. Reeser del Rio (Associate Director of Programs & Curator, The Clemente), and Iberia Pérez-González (Pérez Art Museum Miami, Cultural Associate), to discuss LA ESCUELA ___'s mission and its potential to strengthen cultural ties across regions. For more information on LA ESCEULA____, please visit here. Additional panel information can be found here.

About Miguel Braceli

Miguel Braceli is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art, architecture, and social practices. His practice focused on participatory art projects in public space; exploring geopolitical and local imageries. Most of these projects have been large-scale works developed in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. He has led educational and artistic projects with institutions such as The Bronx Museum of Arts, The MUAC-UNAM with Hemispheric Institute NY, and Pace Gallery. He has participated in residencies and programs such as the Fine Arts Work Center (2024), MacDowell (2023) Skowhegan School of Painting (2022), and Art Omi (2021). His most recent acknowledgments are the Fulbright Scholar (2020-2019), the Young Artist Award of the Principality of Asturias (2018), and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship Award (2024-2026). In 2021 He founded LA ESCUELA___ together with the non-profit Siemens Stiftung International. In 2022 he received a commission from the Percent for Art program for a permanent large-scale public artwork in New York City.

About Tulsa Artist Fellowship

Established in 2015, Tulsa Artist Fellowship was created as a place-based arts initiative by the George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF), that addresses pressing challenges for contemporary artists and arts workers living in and joining the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma. A central part of the Fellowship’s initiative is to bring, enliven, and participate in Tulsa’s growing and thriving arts community. TAF supports contemporary artists across all mediums and is committed to celebrating diversity in all its forms and freedom of expression.

About George Kaiser Family Foundation

George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) is a charitable organization dedicated to providing equal opportunity for young children through investments in early childhood education, community health, social services, and civic enhancement. GKFF believes that Tulsa is a land of opportunity. A generous and welcoming community, this city is not bound by traditional conventions. GKFF is dedicated to making Tulsa the best city for children to be born, grow and succeed.

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