Public Project by Brazilian artists Ivan Grilo at Flagler Street

The55Project is presenting the first solo project by Ivan Grilo (Brazil, 1986) titled Escribe una carta de amor (Write a love letter) in collaboration with Mana Contemporary Miami and Downtown Miami. The public project will be on view until to December 15, 2018. "Escribe una carta de amor, (Write a Love letter) is a series of sculptures formed by phrases that will only be discovered by the people who walk through Flagler Street (Miami). This gives continuity to a tradition that took place with the surrealists in Paris and that also comes from the situationists and the notion of a psychogeography as the intertwined space between territory and the experience. Additionally, the cartography of this walk will be traced by the surprising encounter with these bronze plaques, which have written on them poetic phrases in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Creole, with the idea of marking other mental paths to those that discover them, between all the other orientation signals," says Adriana Herrera, curator. The project initially will use poetic sentences to activate subjective spaces in Downtown Miami creating the possibility of public interaction, promoting new possibilities for political and social discussion while activating conversation beyond the artist's native Brazilian territory, expanding while allowing borders to dissipate. "I am very interested in this ambiguity of phrases, which permeate politics and affection. In addition to this, there is the idea of presenting a work far from the space of the white cube, that allows reaching people completely alien to the art, but never alien to the politics or to the love." - Ivan Grilo.