The55Project Art Foundation
Miami, FL

The55Project Art Foundation returns, featuring a two-artist presentation by Andre Azevedo and Fernanda Froes. Engaging with materiality as a conduit for memory, history, and transformation, it also explores the transformation of materials and processes into profound reflections, both artists employ repetitive techniques that emphasize the materiality of their mediums, transforming them into vehicles for exploring intersections of history, labor, and the limits of representation. This fall, the Foundation will host an Open House on October 30 for its resident artists, Bel Falleiros and Renata Cruz, in collaboration with El Espacio 23. 

El Espacio 23 houses three apartments and a shared work space reserved for residency programs. The residency includes living space, shared studio space, and a production budget for artists and curators across various stages in their career, with a diverse range of disciplines and ethnic backgrounds. Programming is year-round and the length of the stay depends on the interest of the curator or the complexity of the artists’ projects. Residents are selected by El Espacio 23’s curatorial team within the context of the space’s exhibition program, the city of Miami and the Jorge M. Pérez Collection.

Current Residents

Renata Cruz

Renata Cruz lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

In her work she seeks to create open and non-linear narratives, where diverse visions, voices and other manifestations of life are present. She appropriates clippings from literary texts, listens to personal stories and organizes them with collected images and other fragments of the world. Graduated in Visual Communication, UNESP, Bauru, Brazil; Artistic Education, UNAERP, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, she was also a foreign student at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain and a postgraduate degree in Integrative Art at Anhembi Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil. Among the exhibitions in which she participated are: 2021 Tomorrow is now – Labverde Festival; 2020, Amazona –

Adelina Institute, São Paulo, Brazil; 2019, Reserve The abyss does not separate us, it surrounds us – Espaço Cultural Porto Seguro, São Paulo, Brazil; 2018, Forever and a day – MARP Ribeirão Preto Art Museum, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil; 2017, Forever and a day – Blanca Soto Gallery Madrid, Spain; 2016, Kaetemiru, time for changes -Aomori Contemporary Art Center Aomori, Japan; 2015, Liberation Área – EspacioTitilaka Lima, Peru. She currently teaches at the Tomie Ohtake Institute and Sesc Pompéia in São Paulo and is a teaching artist for the Escuelita en Casa project in the Queens, New York.

Bel Falleiros

Bel Falleiros is a Brazilian artist whose practice focuses on place and belonging. Starting with her hometown, São Paulo, she’s worked to understand how contemporary constructed landscapes (mis)represent the diverse layers of presence that constitute a place and how that affects those who inhabit them.

In her work, she creates spaces to be in community with nature, with our own inner being and with the beings around us. She is a fellow artist from Sacatar Institute in Bahia, Brazil (2014), Pecos National Park, New Mexico (2016), Burnside Farm, Detroit (2017), Santa Fe Art Institute Equal Justice Residency (2018), Socrates Sculpture Park (2020), More Art (2021), and Dia:Beacon artist-in-residence for the Dia Teens Program (2021-2) and Wave Hill (2023). She had a commissioned piece for the 37o Panorama of Brazilian art show at MAM, São Paulo (2022) and recently had a solo show, with a collection of works made in the past 7 years, at KinoSaito Art Center (2024).

In addition to her studio practice, she participates in collaborative projects across the Americas connecting art, education and autonomous thinking.

Falleiros lives and works between Stony Point, New York and São Paulo, Brazil.

El Espacio 23 is a contemporary art space founded by collector and philanthropist Jorge M. Pérez. Located within a repurposed 28,000 square foot warehouse in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood, El Espacio 23 serves artists, curators and the general public with regular exhibitions, residencies and a variety of special projects drawn from the Pérez Collection.