BIO:

Francisco Maso (Havana, 1988) is a Cuban-born, Miami-based, Afro-Latinx conceptual artist. He received a Bachelor degree in Stage Design from the Instituto Superior de Arte (2014). He also graduated from both Behavior Art School (2009), led by Tania Bruguera, and the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts (2007). Maso’s work delves into the contemporary understanding of “unconscious behaviors” and challenges what is accepted by society as natural, necessary, and normal. As a conceptual artist, he examines the concept of power and the relationships between blackness, civil rights, and the police system through his personal experiences in Cuba, Japan, and the United States. Maso is a two-time finalist of the Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts, a 2022 and 2020 Ellies Creator Award winner by Oolite Arts, a 2021 South Florida Cultural Consortium grant recipient, and a 2022 DV—AIRIE Award winner.

Under the bridge art space is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition featuring artist Francisco Maso, an artist who is continually pushing the limits of art.

Maso reflects on the exhibition in the following statement;

Listening Room for a Black Spring Afternoon continues my interdisciplinary exploration of music and photography as unfolding events. I am interested in what precedes an action: the accumulation of tension giving rise to an image, a sound, a gesture, or a political event. I invite the audience to submerge themselves in a state of alertness to experience beauty. Conceived as a sequence of three interconnected rooms, the project develops through music, archival photography, projection, and installation in search of a decisive moment capable of unsettling the audience and holding them at the threshold between contemplation and action.