LUCIA HIERRO @lucia_hierro_ Exhibition: Vecinos / Neighbors @primaryprojects Lucia Hierro's first solo exhibition in Miami, showcasing work across a range of disciplines, including digital media, installation, and sculpture. Hierro explores the symbiotic relationship between personal narrative and larger economic structures, engaging the viewer in a discourse on issues of class, culture, and identity. On this block in Little River, the immediate neighbors are Haitian and Dominican. Here, the rhythms of life permeate through the air, where the GΓΌira from a classic bachata accompanies the aroma of our neighbor's magical sancocho. The neighborhood is familiar, made up of sounds, smells, and sights, specific to the culture, on loan from the surrounding landscape. In "Vecinos/Neighbors," the concept not only relates to the literal connotation but also the relationship of the images within the work. Objects take the place of the figure, speaking to our connection with these objects and their respective socio-economic implications. Through similarities in these items, one can begin to relate. The viewer is no longer a spectator but a participant as to say we are all in this together. Hierro grew up in Washington Heights, New York. "My family was always at a two-block radius, walking down the street with my mom meant stopping to talk to someone at every corner. There was a real sense that we were in on something together. I understood early on that it had to do with preserving the cultural/economic sanctuary we had created for ourselves. There was a sense of responsibility for your neighbors and loved ones."An oversized bag of Domino Sugar is titled "Can I Borrow Some Sugar?" a ubiquitous question among neighbors, the irony of relationship-building via politically fraught objects. Reciprocity- as it relates to the interpersonal but hinting at the ways which the actual object it references functions economically and more importantly its means of production. *continues in comments* #luciahierro #installationart #sculpture #primaryprojects (en Primary Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCLoXd8FU3U/?igshid=1wycabqwltlr
