Something More Beautiful

With the moon over the Miami River that night, we gathered at the private home studios of commissioned artist Antonia Wright and partner, collaborator, and multidisciplinary artist Ruben Millares. In our very first reveal of Season Seven, Antonia presented Something more beautiful, a cyanotype on cotton rag created special for our community. 

Antonia’s unique “photograms” were made by smashing tempered glass with a hammer and laying it over chemically treated paper to create non-negative exposures in the sun. Evoking the vulnerability and power of the human body, she uses glass as her material. Here, smashing is utilized as a creative gesture, drawing attention to the visual appearance of broken glass as a system of mapping, and offering a new interpretation of breaking as empowering. 

Every Collector member received Something more beautiful—an edition of 50 made possible and funded by our collective membership. We are honored to be stewards of Antonia’s work, and grounded in our purpose to challenge systems and create spaces to imagine anew. 

ANTONIA’S MIAMI ART WEEK ACTIVATIONS & INSTALLATIONS: 

State of Labor

Banned Pending Investigation by Antonia Wright & Ruben Millares
Wednesday, December 4 , 6—10 PM
7 PM | Performance
Zilberman Gallery
25 NE 39th Street, Miami
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What goes up must come down

Body Time by BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY) x Commissioner
Sunday, December 8, 1—3 PM
1 PM | Directors tour of BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY) exhibition at the PAMM Beach
1:30 PM | Introduction to State of Labor with Antonia Wright at the Bank of America Gallery
2 PM | Healing sound bath with Agua Dulce and Sayje Hewitton on the waterfront museum terrace
Pérez Art Museum Miami
1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami
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What goes up must come down by Antonia Wright & Ruben Millares
On view through March 15, 2025
Lowe Art Museum
1301 Stanford Dr., Coral Gables
lowe.miami.edu

Overwhelming gratitude to curatorial partners Primary, and our dedicated team—Claudia Des Rosiers, Joanna Davila, Natalia Duran, Veronica Gort, Richard Guzman, Maryam Hosseini, Jenna Ingraham, Rebekah Monson, Mariana Pariani, and Gregory Pierre Louis—for their ongoing support. We gratefully acknowledge PAMM, BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY), Tito’s Handmade Vodka, and Fever Tree for their collaboration. Photography by Chantal Lawrie, film by Jorge Gonzalez Graupera.