Caged Canary | Faena Bazaar | HEYDT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: APRIL 10th 2019

PRESS RELEASE: CAGED CANARY Faena Bazaar is pleased to announce the opening of 'Caged Canary', a solo exhibition by social practice + recycled media artist Sam Heydt. Illusion won’t save us from reality, even as the sustained narrative of tabloids becomes history and the myth of progress continues to perpetuate inequality. Globalization has moved forward unevenly and no one can say where this "New Frontier" is taking us. Our time is marked by deindustrialization and the exploitation of cheap labor, climate change and clean coal, nationalism and a refugee crisis. Earth has entered a new geologic era brought on by human activity and pollution. The skeletons of old factories serve as caveats of a world increasingly reduced to a bottom line. Yet, these portents are drowned out by the white noise of the media, which lure us in with the empty promises it proposes for the future it truncates.

Through movie imagery, war photography and vintage advertisement, this exhibition takes the selfdeception of the post-war American middle class – i.e., the narrative created by tabloids, television, and cinema – as a leading motive, and sidesteps into iconographically related themes. By combining images of destruction and disaster with images portraying the virtues and ideals of the 1950’s, Heydt confronts the American Dream with the ecological nightmare advanced industrialization is responsible for.

On view through April 2019, the exhibition is comprised of intimately scaled mixed media works, dioramas, photography, found object interventions and direct animation films.

Sam Heydt: Born in 1986 in New York City. Studied at La Sorbonne, Cooper Union, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The New School & Parsons School of Design. Artist Residencies in Iceland, Australia, New Zealand. Altruistic, non-profit work in India. Lives and works between Vienna and Miami. [www.samheydt.com]

Faena Bazaar is a cutting-edge retail and experiential space located in the heart of Faena District's midBeach neighborhood on historic Collins Avenue. It’s deconstruction of the traditional shopping center forms a platform that promotes transcultural conversations and redefines the shopping experience.

Faena Bazaar

3400 Collins Ave, Miami, FL 33140

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Caged Canary | Faena Bazaar | HEYDT

Published on Apr 12, 2019

Samantha Heydt

Illusion won’t save us from reality, even as the sustained narrative of tabloids becomes history and the myth of progress continues to perpetuate inequality. Globalization has moved forward unevenly and no one can say where this "New Frontier" is taking us. Our time is marked by deindustrialization and the exploitation of cheap labor, climate change and clean coal, nationalism and a refugee crisis. The skeletons of old factories serve as caveats of a world increasingly reduced to a bottom line. Yet, these portents are drowned out by the white noise of the media, which lure us in with the empty promises it proposes for the future it truncates. Combining images of destruction with portrayals of the virtues born from the American dream, Heydt confronts its disillusionment with the ecological nightmare it is responsible for.