Take This Waltz

Christina Pettersson brings Take This Waltz, a gothic exploration of Miami’s environment, mythology, and decline, to the Faena Art’s Project Room.

at the country’s most prestigious museums, from Birmingham to Baltimore, and her work is in major national collections. Still, her central theme is always the unique landscapes, traditions, quirks, and myths of Florida.

Take This Waltz is both a celebration of Miami and an exploration of its dark side. A gothic, carnivalesque masquerade of wildcats and sea birds, mangroves and palmettos, the video installation brings this funeral procession to life. An elegy to the plants and animals that used to occupy the space the city was built on, a mourning of the dead, but at the same time an invitation to enter into that world and get to know it.

Pettersson’s loyalty is to the bygone, but she invites you to join her in falling in love— or even just fascination—with the past, ghosts, and all.

“Years from now, when Florida’s marshy Everglades are buried under liters of salt and sea, Christina Pettersson’s work will be its haunting tombstone,” said arts and culture journalist Nicole Martinez.

JANUARY 20 – FEBRUARY 24

THURSDAY – SUNDAY 3:00PM – 8:00PM

FAENA ART PROJECT ROOM 3420 COLLINS AVE, MIAMI BEACH