Mitrani Art Opens Its Doors in Miami's Little River on 30 November
A new home for photography, film and video is opening in Miami. Mitrani Art will open on 30 November in the Little River District, a neighbourhood just north of downtown Miami, according to The Art Newspaper.
The venue is run by sisters Dina and Rhonda Mitrani, who are its co-founders. Their story starts in Wynwood, the Miami arts district known for its murals. In 2002, the sisters started the Mitrani Warehouse in their family's long-running clothing factory there. It closed in 2017.
Two years later, in 2019, the sisters bought a mechanic's shop in Little River and began turning it into a new space. Mitrani Art is an evolution of that Wynwood project. Inside the former warehouse, Dina Mitrani started the Dina Mitrani Gallery for contemporary photography, and Rhonda Mitrani opened a Screening Room for filmmakers and video artists. The Dina Mitrani Gallery had opened in Wynwood in 2008 and specialises in international contemporary photography.
The new building will hold exhibition galleries, a screening room and artists' studios, where artists make work. The focus is what the trade calls lens-based art, meaning work made with cameras, including photography, film and video. An outdoor screening room is also planned, where, in the venue's words on its Instagram account, art, film and architecture meet.
The design was handled by R&R Studios, run by Argentine artists Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt. Mitrani Art says it will offer a gathering space for artistic exploration, dialogue and mentorship. The sisters have described it as a place where people can learn from each other, not only a place to look at finished work. The new address is 7325 North Miami Avenue.
The opening show is a group exhibition called ReExposures: The Magic Within. Among the works, the most-discussed is expected to be Suddenly We Jumped by Miami-based artist Antonia Wright, according to The Art Newspaper. The piece records a live performance from 2013. In it, Wright jumps onto a pane of glass, breaks it, and falls to the floor below.
For Miami audiences, the opening adds a new stop to the city's art calendar, and for the Mitranis it is a return to the lens-based work they have championed for more than two decades. Visitors who want to see the performance, the galleries and the outdoor screening room will be able to do so from the end of November.
