Art Basel Miami Beach

Miami Beach Convention Center

Booth G22

Nov 29–Dec 4, 2022November 29–December 4, 2022

Miami Beach Convention Center

Miami, Florida

Lehmann Maupin returns to Art Basel Miami Beach with a presentation of signature works by Liza Lou, Lari Pittman, Alex Prager, Do Ho Suh, Mandy El-Sayegh, McArthur Binion, Dominic Chambers, Teresita Fernández, Tom Friedman, Nicholas Hlobo, Lee Bul, OSGEMEOS, and Liu Wei. Together, the works on view elucidate conceptual and material parallels that transcend geographic, cultural, and aesthetic boundaries.

Do Ho Suh’s Inverted Monument (2022), made of extruded thermoplastic polyester, advances the artist’s longstanding interest in questioning the language of public monuments, as well as the authority and agency of ‘the artist’s hand’. The work draws on generalized concepts of an “ideal” monument in the lexicon of Western statuary; the multi-limbed figure is modeled on a cross-section of data taken from public sculpture in the UK. Here, Suh turns this idea literally and figuratively on its head – the commemorative figure hangs upside down inside the translucent and traditionally proportioned pedestal itself. Considering what and who we chose to elevate in civic spaces, Inverted Monument lays bare public perceptions of the power structures upheld by such visual traditions.