Sensorial Fusion: Relationship Art and Architecture

Sensorial Fusion: Relationship Art & Architecture

Exhibition Curators Naivy Pérez and Frency Fernández

“Smart Cities” The Organizing and Curatorial Committee of the New York Latin American Art Triennial (NYLAAT) is proud to announce the exhibition at the Lehman College Art Gallery. The 2025 New York Latin American Art Triennial (NYLAAT) revives the historic dialogue between art and architecture, transforming it into a tool for social reconstruction. While this fusion dates to antiquity, the Avant-Garde reimagined it as an engine for collective identity—a vision that resonates powerfully across contemporary Latin America. Recent architecture synthesizes indigenous roots, colonial legacies, and modernist innovation, creating living monuments to cultural resilience. NYLAAT 2025 interrogates these hybrid spaces, where artistic interventions activate architecture’s potential to shape emotion, community, and political consciousness. The Triennial responds to urgent urban dialogues: climate precarity, gentrification, and the paradoxes of globalization. Artists and architects collaborate to decode cities through radical visual strategies—mapping from aerial, street-level, and subterranean vantages. These works challenge passive consumption of space, proposing instead architectures of participation that question who gets to design civic imagination. By merging installation, performance, and structural design, NYLAAT 2025 offers alternative models for art-architecture fusion—ones where materials speak to displacement, facades become protest canvases, and plazas transform into sites of collective memory. This is not aesthetic experimentation for its own sake, but a charged exploration of how built environments might redistribute social power. Lehman College Art Gallery 250 Bedford Park Blvd W, Bronx, NY 10468 October 29th, 2025 through January 17th, 2026 Opening Reception: October 29, 2025. Time: 5 PM - 7 PM ARTISTAS: Alba Triana (Colombia), Armando Guiller (Cuba), Balam & Mary Soto (Guatemala | United States), Dora Mejía (Colombia), Fernando Velázquez (Uruguay), Fidel García (Cuba), Joaquín Fargas (Argentina), Liliana Farber (Uruguay), Malitzin Cortés (CNDSD) & Iván Abreu (Mexico | Cuba), Milton Raggi (Cuba), MINImax (Cuba), MoraKana (Mexico | Thailand), Nestor Siré & Steffen Köhn (Cuba | Germany), Poli Mujica (Chile), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico), Rewell Altunaga (Cuba), Unidad de Conciencias Colectivas Terrestres (Mexico), Yucef Merhi (Venezuela). "Smart Cities” explores the dynamic intersection of art, architecture, and cutting-edge technology, envisioning the urban landscapes of tomorrow. As cities evolve into interconnected hubs of innovation, artists and architects reimagine spaces through digital advancements, sustainable design, and immersive experiences. This exhibition showcases how creativity and technology merge to shape smarter, more responsive environments. From AI-generated urban visions to interactive installations, the works challenge traditional boundaries, proposing new ways of living, working, and interacting within cities. Augmented reality, generative design, and eco-conscious materials redefine LEHMAN COLLEGE ART GALLERY architectural possibilities, while artists critique and celebrate the digital transformation of public spaces. "Smart Cities" invites reflection on the future of urban life—where data, sustainability, and human experience converge. How do we balance technological progress with cultural identity? Can art and architecture foster inclusivity in an increasingly automated world? Through multidisciplinary collaborations, this exhibition sparks dialogue on innovation’s role in building vibrant, resilient communities.