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Small Oscillations Among Ordinary Forms
Small Oscillations Among Ordinary Forms opens at David Castillo in Miami on September 3, 2026 and runs through October 1, 2026. The exhibition continues Adler Guerrier’s sustained engagement with place, landscape, identity, and the social geography of Miami. Drawing from observations made during walks through the city, Guerrier focuses on overlooked features of domestic and urban landscapes—from backyard vegetation and wildflowers to stucco surfaces and spiritual offerings—to explore how seemingly ordinary forms can reveal histories of community, belonging, race, class, and cultural life.
Small Oscillations Among Ordinary Forms, David Castillo, 25 NE 39th St, Miami, FL 33137, September 3 – October 1, 2026. Adler Guerrier’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery turns attention toward the seemingly minor details of Miami’s landscape, bringing together photographs, collages, and works on paper that examine wild plants, domestic spaces, neighborhoods, and the social meanings embedded in everyday environments.
Exhibition Description
Small Oscillations Among Ordinary Forms is on view at David Castillo, 25 NE 39th St, Miami, FL 33137, from September 3 through October 1, 2026. The exhibition marks Adler Guerrier’s fourth solo presentation with the gallery and develops his longstanding exploration of Miami as both a lived environment and a site through which broader questions of identity, social space, and belonging can be examined. Guerrier approaches the city as an observer and walker, paying close attention to peripheral spaces such as front yards, backyards, plants growing against architecture, and objects situated within domestic landscapes. In the exhibition, photographs of Miami flora become the basis for layered paper collages and works incorporating graphite, acrylic, and gouache. Guerrier repeatedly translates subjects across media—from plants to photographs, from photographs to collage, and from photographic imagery into drawing and painting. These acts of repetition and transformation form the “small oscillations” suggested by the exhibition’s title, allowing familiar forms to shift in appearance and meaning. Through this close attention to what might otherwise appear inconsequential, Guerrier positions landscape as a record of social life. A flower, yard, architectural surface, or patch of vegetation can point toward the histories of a home, a neighborhood’s demographics, patterns of care, and the people who inhabit and move through a place. The exhibition reflects Guerrier’s broader multidisciplinary practice, which uses photography, collage, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and installation to examine how race, class, migration, diaspora, architecture, memory, and culture become embedded within urban environments.
