Philadelphia-based artists Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib, known for their fantastical moving images and alternate realities, created a new immersive film installation for Locust Projects. Field Companion, set in a microcosmic forest, is based loosely on the pine barrens that dot Southern New Jersey near their home. Like many, the duo found refuge and solace throughout the COVID-19 pandemic hiking and foraging in these remote, natural landscapes. As America's social fabric frayed deeply over recent years, they considered forest ecosystems in terms of symbiotic and collaborative relationships that sustain coexistence and community.

Locust Projects presents The Depths, the fourth in a series of guest curated video exhibitions in Locust Projects’ Screening Room that launched in fall 2019. Guest curated by filmmaker and video artist, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, the exhibition features works by Isabelle Carbonell, Miguel Hilari, Los Ingrávidos, Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Sindhu Thirumalaisamy.  

"Toxic Lake, Salt On Film, Moon Goddess Through Violence, through desert cactus, a mine and the photographs of those who labored them. This series unfolds through relations of material and sensorial experience, they arise from an inseparability of what we think of as "place" from historical events or the deep time of geology from a multi-perspectival experimental film language." - Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, guest curator

Guest curated by Adler Guerrier and Laura Novoa featuring Andrea Bowers, Sandi Haber Fifield, David Hartt, Jim Hodges, Ebony G. Patterson, and Onajide Shabaka and newly commissioned works by Ema Ri and Cristina Lei Rodriguez.

A landscape longed for: the garden as disturbance explores the motif of the garden as used by artists in its relation to the cultivation and expression of beauty and knowledge. The works in the exhibition function around images and objects connected to and derived from the study of plants, prompting a reimagining and reinterpretation of the garden as a site for the lyrical arrangement of forms. 

Calling all local, national and international artists! On Thursday, January 20 at 12PM ET, join Locust Projects co-founder and practicing artist, Elizabeth Withstandley, for a free webinar about applying for an opportunity to create a newly commissioned exhibition at a nationally-recognized alternative art space in our Project Room. This is your chance to ask questions and get expert tips on submitting a compelling proposal.

Applications are open now until Feb 5, 2022. Learn more and apply here.

Be the first to know about the next cycle of WaveMaker Grants for Miami-Dade artists. Learn how to propose a stand out idea and receive up to $6,000 in incubator funds to make it happen. You'll also get to hear from current WaveMakers about their #WaveMakerInProgress. Submissions open Feb 1.  

The next cycle of WaveMaker Grants for Miami-Dade artists open Feb. 1. Schedule a 15-minute Office Hour appointment to talk more about your specific project idea.