Miami Art Week 2017 from Faena on Vimeo.
MARKET: Phillip K. Smith III – 120 Degree Arc East Southeast
Faena Art
Unifying a large swath of the Faena Beach is artist Phillip K Smith III with a new iteration of the work he created earlier this year at Desert X in the Coachella Valley. What was once a sacred circle in the desert of California is here converted into an arc that seems to hold the sea, a mirrored cove that opens up towards the Caribbean. The work creates a reflective space within the beach environment—the mirrored steel structural elements disappear and meld into the pure elements of water and sky. The artwork directly engages with the ocean surrounding and the endless heavens. As the light shifts over the course of the day and the viewer moves through the installation, land, water and sky are separated, merged, and displaced, subverting one’s assumed relationship with the horizon and natural boundaries. It is a constantly morphing installation that can never be seen the same way twice.