Detroit Artists Ashely Worden and Uta Brauser Present New Work at Satellite Art Show During Art Basel Miami
Miami, FL — Detroit-based artists Ashely Worden and Uta Brauser will debut new collaborative work at the Satellite Art Show, taking place December 5–7, 2026, during Art Basel Miami. Known for their inventive, surreal, and an incisive approach to sculpture and installation, the duo brings a fresh and provocative exploration of domestic life to one of the most anticipated art events of the year.
Worden and Brauser’s practice centers around an interrogation of home—its comforts, its contradictions, and the unseen labor it demands. Their shared artist statement articulates the core of their collaboration:
“Ashely Worden and Uta Brauser use wit and handmade absurdity to confront the uneasy truths embedded in domestic life. Their work mixes surrealist logic, improvisation, and the visual language of everyday objects to expose how humor and discomfort often sit side by side.
La casa runs through their practice: the textures of real homes layered with myth, memory, and quiet expectation. Home as noun, burden, comfort, architecture, and assignment. Their figures bend and buckle under structures that should protect them, revealing the invisible labor that sustains comfort and continuity.
Through playful distortion, Worden and Brauser ask a simple but urgent question: Who carries the weight of home—and at what cost?”
For Satellite Art Show 2026, Worden and Brauser present new sculptural works and constructed environments that expand this inquiry. Expect uncanny household forms, fragile supports, pliable bodies, and objects that teeter between the familiar and the absurd. Their installations create a world where humor becomes a pressure valve and surrealism a tool for truth-telling.
As Detroit artists, Worden and Brauser carry forward the city’s long-standing spirit of reinvention, material experimentation, and social critique. Their presence at Satellite underscores the continued significance of Detroit’s artistic contributions on an international stage.
About Satellite Art Show
Satellite Art Show is known for championing risk-taking, performance-forward, and experimental contemporary art. During Art Basel Miami, it provides an alternative platform that highlights artists and projects pushing beyond commercial and institutional norms. Satellite Art Show will take over an entire hotel with artist installations, including installations from ICE T and Andy Warhol’s blow up doll, Andy Pandy!
Exhibition Details
Event: Satellite Art Show
Dates: December 5–7, 2026
Location: Booth 20, The Geneva Hotel, 1520 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida (Art Basel Week)
Artists: Ashely Worden & Uta Brauser
