Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc. invites audiences to experience DVCAI at Barry's experimental, multimedia summer exhibition, Across ebb and flow, during a four-month run that explores the terrain between belonging and transformation.
Thursday, June 26, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Performance of Telegraph Valley at 7:00 PM
DVCAI at Barry, Monsignor William Barry Library
Barry University, 11300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33161
Across ebb and flow is a two-person exhibition featuring installations by artists L.A. Samuelson, an interdisciplinary choreographer working in performance, sculpture, and new media, and Amanda Bradley, a Belizean American artist, photographer, and curator. Both artists present works that are adaptive to site and transform with each iteration of presentation.
Join us for the opening reception as we witness the premiere performance of Telegraph Valley at 7:00 PM—created and performed by L.A. Samuelson in collaboration with Dramaturg Elle Hong and Sound Artist Adam Stone. Assembled from house frames, ladders, floating decks, mattresses, rotating light sources, and one dancer, Telegraph Valley makes momentary dwellings out of holes and passageways, attempting to deconstruct the body as a "house for the soul" metaphor to uncover something that roves, collides, undercuts, and transforms what we understand ourselves to be.
Experience Amanda Bradley's From One Sea (2017-2025), where photography becomes a language that bridges the seen, felt, and spoken. Her photographic installation centers the sea as a site of memory, with the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean acting as wells of memory and places of possibility. As viewers follow the horizon, a poem reveals itself, creating a journey and guiding the viewer along.
Within each body of work, the artists deconstruct notions of ownership, division, and permanence, seeking a more expansive relationship to change, connection, and loss. The exhibition spans installation, photographic, poetic, and performative practices—building a world within the ebb and flow of disciplines and forms.
Exhibition continues through September 30, 2025
Visit during regular summer Library hours: Monday-Thursday 7:30 AM - 8:00 PM; Friday 7:30 AM - 6:00 PM; Saturday 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM; Sunday 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM.
Telegraph Valley is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by RedLine Contemporary Art Center in partnership with DVCAI. Supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Free admission | Venue is accessible
For accessibility accommodations, contact Rosie Gordon-Wallace at rosie@dvcai.org or (305) 542-4277 at least 5 days in advance.
Curated by the DVCAI at Barry Curatorial Team, Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Lauryn Lawrence, and Louise Martorano.
