Superblue, Miami
Evocative. Impactful. Audacious – Explore the mesmerising and creative world of Superblue, located in Miami’s Allapattah neighbourhood, a short walk from the hugely popular Wynwood creative district.
Superblue supports some of the world’s most innovative artists, allowing them to create large-scale, immersive installations that create experiences that are as meaningful as they are transcendent. These artists push the boundaries of what art can be. With a rotation of works on display over the coming years, discover what this new creative hub has to offer during Miami’s 2021 art week.
Click on the video above to take a short tour of the installations and experiences at Miami’s newest art and design destination, a 50,000-square-foot experimental art venue that houses large-scale projects and works for visitors to explore and immerse themselves in. Highly photogenic, many of the spaces (not all!) are designed to be photographed, capturing the memories and sharing these incredible art pieces with the world.
teamLab - Massless Clouds Between Sculpture and Life
The sculpture, a giant white mass, neither sinks to the floor nor reaches the ceiling. It floats within the confines of the space, transcending the concept of mass. The contour of this floating sculpture’s existence is ambiguous, becoming smaller as it tears and growing larger as the masses come together. People can immerse their entire bodies in the sculpture, and even if they break it, the sculpture naturally repairs itself like a living thing. But, as with living things, when the sculpture is destroyed beyond what it can repair, it cannot mend itself and collapses. Even if people try to move or push this floating sculpture, they cannot do so. If they stir up the wind, the sculpture will scatter.
DRIFT - MEADOW
Meadow is an upside-down landscape that is a kinetic sculpture consisting of mechanical flowers that open and close in a poetic choreography. The installation suggests the impermanence of the ever-changing seasons and the sensational character of natural growth processes. Visitors are invited to sit or lay underneath the flowers and look up, seeing the multi-coloured works descend, illuminate and open and finally retract, their presence slowly fading away into the distance.
teamLab - Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together – Transcending Boundaries, A Whole Year per Hour
The seasons change gradually across the installation space. A seasonal year of flowers blossom according to the changing seasons, and the place where they grow moves gradually. The flowers bud, grow, and blossom before their petals begin to wither and eventually fade away. The cycle of growth and decay repeats itself in perpetuity. If a person stays still, the flowers surrounding them grow and bloom more abundantly. If viewers touch or step on the flowers, they shed their petals, wither, and die all at once.
The artwork is not a pre-recorded image that is played back: it is created by a computer program that continuously renders the work in real-time. The interaction between people and the installation causes continuous change in the artwork: previous visual states can never be replicated and will never reoccur. The picture at this moment can never be seen again.
Es Devlin - Move through a mirrored labyrinth
An immersive, large-scale installation – Sculptures are brought to life in ‘Forest of Us’, which draws parallels between the structures within us which allow us to breathe, and those external to us. The bronchial tubes, which exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide and the trees, which exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen, are explored in this work, which begins as a film. Visitors enter this visual world through random permutations leading to a mirror maze. The surreal hall of mirrors confuses our perceptions - distracted by our own image on an endless loop; we lose sight of our connection with the biosphere.