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Concourse D, post-security
Gates D22 & D25
In Between Sentiments
Photographs by Nicole Combeau and Sue Montoya
September 2024 - February 2, 2025
In partnership with Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), MIA Galleries presents the exhibition In Between Sentiments, curated by Amanda Bradley. In Between Sentiments highlights the works of Nicole Combeau and Sue Montoya, who both use photography as a medium to delve into the intersections of place, memory, and the movement that comes with migration. Both artists use the camera as a tool to uncover the sentiments that exist between person and place in often fleeting moments.
Nicole Combeau employs deliberate techniques such as the manipulation of light and double exposures to weave layered and collaborative narratives into her work and ground herself in relationship to her surroundings. These processes, often unpredictable, merge body and landscape seamlessly–where the border of the body and the land it occupies become one plane–mirroring the notion that we both come from and become the places we move through. Often taking the form of portraits and self-portraits, Combeau builds her photographic narratives in collaboration with both her subjects and the medium of photography itself.
Sue Montoya documents the landscapes she moves through, layering memories and sentiments and pairing each with a song, which becomes an ongoing love letter to places left behind, people lost, and lived experiences. This series, Letras Viajeras (Traveling Letters), culminates in an ongoing heartfelt love letter to all the places she once knew. Multidimensional in its format, this photographic essay is activated by the viewer - visitors are invited to scan a QR code to listen to the playlist or take a postcard to mail, creating an interactive and engaging experience.
Both artists, first-generation Americans, navigate their sense of place in the world with their cameras collecting and transforming moments, feelings, people and places into tangible sentiments and archives. The images become entry points that question relationships and histories.
This exhibition is part of the 2024 WOPHA Congress programming. The WOPHA Congress takes place from October 23-26, 2024, at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and various locations across South Florida.
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Nicole Combeau - Mi hogar está en la sonrisa de mi abuela, en la forma en que los pájaros vuelan, en los sonidos rítmicos del viento – ahí, me encuentro a mi misma
Nicole Combeau - Untitled (I sat for two hours watching you fly, both uncomfortably and in awe)
Sue Montoya - IV. era una hoja en blanco (from series Letras Viajeras, Traveling Letters)
Sue Montoya, XIV. I wanna relax and be tender (from series Letras Viajeras, Traveling Letters)