Beyond Fibers by Aurora Molina, Opening January 31st
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
In Beyond Fibers, Aurora Molina stages a surreal political tableau where power, spectacle, and silence coexist in uneasy harmony. The composition gathers a cast of familiar yet transformed figures that represents politicians, enforcers, protestors, and children—interwoven with animal hybrids that expose the instincts and absurdities behind political theater.
Through the careful rendering of gesture and costume, Molina collapses the distance between the human and the animal, the leader and the led. A donkey-headed statesman shakes hands with a suited iguana, a rabbit-faced officer kneels beside a child, and a tiger gazes outward as if aware of the performance. Protest signs emerge as fragile acts of resistance amid the hierarchy of spectacle.
The work extends Molina’s ongoing inquiry into visibility, control, and collective complicity. Here, embroidery becomes a metaphor for entanglement—threads of history, ideology, and identity woven together in a fabric of contradictions. The Cabinet of the Absurd reminds us that beneath the surface of civility, the political stage remains a theater of instincts and masks.
You are cordially invited to the Opening Reception
on Saturday, January 31st, from 4:00 to 7:00 PM
at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
2101 Tigertail Avenue, Miami, FL 33133
The gallery is open on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, or by appointment.
For more information, please contact us at (305) 860-3681.
