Diego Alejandro Waisman
Sunset Colonies
On View:
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 — Saturday, April 19, 2025
Intimate portraits of South Florida’s mobile home communities reveal the delicate balance between resilience and vulnerability in the face of urban change. Diego Alejandro Waisman: Sunset Colonies, on view at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU from January 29 through April 19, presents a seven-year photographic exploration of these often-overlooked neighborhoods.
Waisman, whose broader artistic practice investigates themes of social displacement and exile, has garnered international recognition for his thoughtful documentation of communities in transition.
In a series of poignant and evocative images, Diego Alejandro Waisman: Sunset Colonies explores the vulnerabilities faced by residents of South Florida’s mobile home communities amid rapid urban transformation and the persistent threat of economic displacement. Named after Waisman’s book of the same title, the exhibition features photographs from the Frost Art Museum’s collection alongside additional works by the artist, created over a span of seven years. These images pose pressing questions about the invisibility of mobile home communities, their histories, and their uncertain futures amidst the housing affordability crisis. At the same time, they highlight the resilience and strength of individuals whose sense of home balances delicately between memory and an encroaching reality.
Diego Alejandro Waisman is a Buenos Aires–born, Miami-based visual artist whose work explores social and economic displacement, exile, family, identity, and origins. He has exhibited and received accolades for his work in South Florida and around the world.
Diego Waisman, Grow, from For I Shall Already Have Forgotten You, 2021, Color photograph, 22 x 33 inches, Purchased with Funds from the Dorothea Green Emerging Artists Fund, FIU 2024.9.2
