New SpaceJune 9, 2025· By Adriana Herrera
Aluna Art Foundation’s Space in Little Havana Opens with a Show Inspired by The Aleph
The opening marks the beginning of an expansion of wide-reaching curatorial initiatives, grounded in partnerships with Miami’s artistic community and international collaborators, aimed at generating sustained processes of cultural transformation. This art space is part of Tower Space, a project conceived in collaboration with Barlington Group, which enhances the experience of contemporary art in this emblematic neighborhood.
The exhibition The Aleph and Other Portals is a curatorial project shaped collectively with the artists Carola Bravo, Gretel Capriles, Agustín Di Luciano, Elfriede Fett-Crohare, Feco Hamburger, Kenzie Funk, Flor Godward, Andrés Michelena, Ronald Morán, Mario Rodríguez “Mareo” and Gladys Triana. The show features documentation of a piece by Julieta Aranda. Sebastián Elizondo has made an intervention in the bathroom space—which fascinated Duchamp—using a urinal documentation and an animation derived from Eadweard Muybridge frames. Capriles, Di Luciano and Godward form part of the Tower Studios, a new artistic epicenter inside the historic Tower Hotel.
The exhibition is interwoven with The Aleph's evocative meditation on the possibility of glimpsing the universe from the least expected places. Borges recounts the discovery of a small point where, with some discomfort from the strain of posture and concentrated gaze, it is possible to perceive “the place where all the places of the world are, without confusion, seen from every angle”: a tiny, iridescent sphere, which allows one to behold simultaneously the immeasurable space-time of all that exist, and to plunge into the contemplation of the boundless universe.
“The works assembled here, explain curators Adriana Herrera and Willy Castellanos, contain their own “alephs” of vision: They contain portals of their own, placing us at the threshold of something that cannot be fully seen without effort—a threshold linked to the enduring questions, inviting us to enter gently, attentively, into the various universes created by the artists until we begin to sense their connection to what we most need to see.
The Aleph and Other Portals’ production was made possible with the support of Tower Hotel, DC Foundation, Janaina Torres Galeria, the 55Project, the Brazil-USA Cultural Center of Florida (CCBU) and 108 ArtProjects.
The exhibition The Aleph and Other Portals is a curatorial project shaped collectively with the artists Carola Bravo, Gretel Capriles, Agustín Di Luciano, Elfriede Fett-Crohare, Feco Hamburger, Kenzie Funk, Flor Godward, Andrés Michelena, Ronald Morán, Mario Rodríguez “Mareo” and Gladys Triana. The show features documentation of a piece by Julieta Aranda. Sebastián Elizondo has made an intervention in the bathroom space—which fascinated Duchamp—using a urinal documentation and an animation derived from Eadweard Muybridge frames. Capriles, Di Luciano and Godward form part of the Tower Studios, a new artistic epicenter inside the historic Tower Hotel.
The exhibition is interwoven with The Aleph's evocative meditation on the possibility of glimpsing the universe from the least expected places. Borges recounts the discovery of a small point where, with some discomfort from the strain of posture and concentrated gaze, it is possible to perceive “the place where all the places of the world are, without confusion, seen from every angle”: a tiny, iridescent sphere, which allows one to behold simultaneously the immeasurable space-time of all that exist, and to plunge into the contemplation of the boundless universe.
“The works assembled here, explain curators Adriana Herrera and Willy Castellanos, contain their own “alephs” of vision: They contain portals of their own, placing us at the threshold of something that cannot be fully seen without effort—a threshold linked to the enduring questions, inviting us to enter gently, attentively, into the various universes created by the artists until we begin to sense their connection to what we most need to see.
The Aleph and Other Portals’ production was made possible with the support of Tower Hotel, DC Foundation, Janaina Torres Galeria, the 55Project, the Brazil-USA Cultural Center of Florida (CCBU) and 108 ArtProjects.
