Limits to Growth at NADA Miami

Limits to Growth
Experimental exhibition and performance at NADA Miami
3-7 December 2024, between 1-6pm
Ice Palace Studios, 1400 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33136

During Miami Art Week, visitors at NADA Miami may encounter a figure at the Ice Palace Studios immersed in reading The Limits to Growth, a report written in 1972 by environmental scientists Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III. The report predicted and discussed the now implemented imbalance between ideals and dreams of exponential economic growth and our planet’s factual resources. In addition to their deviant art fair activities, the person is wearing an artwork and carrying one on them.

Limits to Growth is a nomadic exhibition and a performance moving around NADA Miami site, addressing various social and economic power structures and art world dynamics in relation to a person’s inner dialogue and the realm of feelings and emotions. The project brings together a performative work by Nestori Syrjälä alongside new commissioned works by Jaakko Pallasvuo and Bogna Luiza Wisniewska.

The project is curated by Elina Suoyrjö, Director of Programs at the FCINY. The performance is carried out by artists Heather Lyon and misael soto. The visual identity is designed by Marina Veziko.

Jaakko Pallasvuo (b. 1333) is an artist and writer living in Helsinki. Pallasvuo’s works are not about anything and have been exhibited at the 14th Baltic Triennial, BOZAR, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and New York Film Festival, among other places. Pallasvuo's comics for the instagram account avocado_ibuprofen were collected into a book by Perfectly Acceptable Press in 2021.

Nestori Syrjälä works with sculpture, installation and public interventions. For the past ten years he has been obsessed with the crisis in human relations with the environment: the ground under our feet, the air we breathe, and the oceans that surround us are all turning strange. Syrjälä’s work explores this strangeness through his material sculptural practice as well as through performative situations created in public space. Syrjälä has studied sculpture in the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Institute of Art in Sweden. His work has been shown at Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Matadero Madrid and Gwangju Biennale.

Bogna Luiza Wisniewska (b. 1988, Poland) is a soft-hearted person who lives and works in Helsinki, where she maintains an arts practice that fosters cozy spaces and good company, bringing people together through painting, ceramics, textiles, exhibition-making, installation, cooking, gardening, and hosting. Her practice is rooted in care, kindness, fragility, queerness and the exploration of these elements through various mediums. She is also part of the artist-run gallery SIC.