Dec 2 – 6, 2025
Ice Palace Studios : 1400 North Miami Avenue, Miami, USA
Stand C213
For its participation in NADA Miami, Galerie John Ferrère presents recent works by Francisce G. Pinzón Samper, a young and singular voice within both the French and Latin American contemporary art scenes. Through this project, we seek to foreground an emerging artistic presence while reaffirming our commitment to practices deeply rooted in today’s artistic landscape.
This exhibition is conceived as a play of echoes between interiority and exteriority, introspection and projection, exploring a spectrum of identities that ranges from the intimate to the performative, from figuration to abstraction.
At the heart of the presentation lies a contrast between two distinct yet deeply connected bodies of work: a group of luminous, abstract compositions, and a constellation of quieter portraits and interior scenes. Together, they form a dynamic movement between restraint and brilliance, intimacy and openness.
The abstract and gestural works deploy a visual vocabulary marked by fluidity, color, and rhythm. These compositions operate like inner landscapes or moments of breath, radiating a more externalized energy. They seem to extend the gaze, offering places for circulation and projection. They invite a different mode of contemplation—more expansive, less directed. Their silence is no longer that of encounter, but that of distance, of horizon.
In dialogue with these abstractions, a series of portraits and domestic fragments unfolds with a quieter intensity. Francisce creates like a DJ: their works reveal bodies in latency or suspension, often caught in transitional states—lying down, seated, absorbed in a gesture or a pause, situated in spaces of passage, labor, or intimacy. These figures appear engaged in discreet, almost ritual choreography.
Among these works, a group of nearly silent frontal portraits functions as open mirrors for the viewer. Playing on a mise en abyme effect, these figures—absorbed in acts of looking—confront us with a mirrored movement: we are watching people who are watching, and this back-and-forth unsettles the boundary between subject and object. Within this tension, the portrait becomes a gaze held in suspension, a presence charged with silence that invites a response without ever demanding one.
It is within this fertile tension that the project finds its full resonance. In the words of Ugo Rondinone, “all [their] works are organized around a duality of vision: the gaze turned inward and the one turned outward, toward nature.” This presentation seeks to hold these two dimensions in balance: a deep interior life and an openness to universal emotional archetypes. Each element appears placed as one would lay a stone in a ritual circle, orienting the gaze, channeling listening, and inviting a silent meditation at the threshold of the spiritual and the sensory.
The exhibition is designed to activate an experience that is both aesthetic and emotional, where each image becomes a space for projection as much as a place of welcome.
