Flannery Silva and Joshua Abelow presented two-person exhibition Frozen Jail at Miami Beach’s A-Z Toys on October 29.
Organised by Pretty Days (a nomadic, curatorial platform creating exhibitions inside tents run by artists Gregory Kalliche and Harry Gould Harvey), the installation is one of four projects in the Pretty Days: MIA series, which take place around the city of Miami, and is curated in collaboration with Anna Frost and Bas Fisher Invitational (BFI). Running October 29 to November 23, other exhibitions included work by Michael Assiff, Edward Shenk and Loney Abrams + Johnny Stanish.
Situated within a Miami beach toy store inventory space are a series of watercolours by Abelow, featuring images of dolls and other figurines that “reflect a loneliness but also an optimism of finding one self in a new stage of life.” Silva presented a series of empty doll boxes made into sculptural exteriors of “the sensitivity and vulnerability of adolescence.”**
