Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is pleased to present Every Sound Is a Shape of Time, a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring over 20 works by 17 artists including painting, sculpture and lightwork. Curated by PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans, the exhibition showcases works from the museum’s collection made between 1958 and 2020- half of which will be presented for the first time. Participating artists include Abraham Cruzvillegas, Alfredo Jaar, Ellsworth Kelly, Glenda Leon, Helen Frankenthaler, Jennie C. Jones, Jules Olitski, Julie Mehretu, Lawrence Weiner, Luis Camnitzer, Lydia Okumura, Mark Bradford, Morris Louis, Nicole Cherubini, Richard Serra, Richard Dupont, and Robert Morris.
The title of the exhibition, Every Sound Is a Shape of Time, alludes to Cuban artist Glenda Leon’s work, inspired by “the space where sound and the visual merge.” The exhibition speaks to the interconnectedness between universal elements through the various multimedia artworks on view, centered around the core elements of beauty and humanism, and grounded in the strength of a plurality of voices. “With Every Sound Is a Shape of Time, we’re excited to bring together works that reflect on the common threads that emerge from our collection,” said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. Core to Every Sound Is a Shape of Time is Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar’s neon lightwork “I Can’t Go On. I’ll Go On” (2016). Two other works by Jaar further ground the show, including “Europa” (1994), his monumental installation responding to the Bosnian War and the indifference in response to this crisis in the early 1990s