Adrián Sosa: Habitar una Nube (To Inhabit a Cloud)
Save the Date: January 29–April 11, 2026
The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery Presents
Pembroke Pines, FL — The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery is pleased to present Habitar una Nube (To Inhabit a Cloud), a major solo exhibition by Argentine artist Adrián Sosa, on view from January 29 through April 11, 2026. Curated by Sophie Bonet, Chief Curator, and presented in partnership with Ceibo Gallery, in collaboration with Pabellón 4 Arte Contemporáneo and Fulana Galeria, this exhibition positions Sosa’s rigorous practice within a broader discourse on labor, landscape, gesture, and material memory.
The centerpiece of the presentation is a series of video‑performances and material‑driven works rooted in the rural landscape of Tucumán, Argentina. Rather than depicting rural life as a theme or narrative, Sosa’s work emerges from lived experience and embodied labor traditions. Through a set of restrained yet charged actions—cercar (to fence), herir (to wound), trazar (to trace), levantar polvo (to raise dust)—Sosa examines labor as embodied knowledge shaped by repetition, effort, and time. These gestures do not merely record activity; they generate physical, atmospheric, and sensory relations that ask viewers to move with and alongside the works as they unfold.
To inhabit a cloud is not a metaphor — it is a condition. Sosa’s exhibition asks visitors to see with the body, listen to effort, and perceive the slow temporality of field and terrain alongside sudden ruptures of interruption. Here, matter does not accompany thought—it testifies. Earth, flour, cement, smoke, metal, and air all speak; not toward isolated personal stories, but toward broader fields of worked territories, inherited knowledge, and the often‑invisible ways communities learn to inhabit what they are given.
Adrián Sosa (b. 1994, Monteros, Tucumán, Argentina) is a contemporary visual artist whose interdisciplinary work spans video‑performance, installation, and printmaking. Sosa does not approach landscape in search of aesthetic theme; he begins from an inherited world—familial, communal, historical—where every decision is embedded within systems of labor, survival, and tradition. Whether it is fencing a yard, drawing a line in dust, raising a cloud of earth, or marking land through repetition, these actions both organize and contest reality. Through this practice, Sosa reveals labor not as image, but as persistence and knowledge.
Opening Reception — Thursday, January 29, 6–9 PM
Art lovers and community members are cordially invited to the free and open‑to‑the‑public Opening Reception at The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery. This special evening celebrates two concurrent solo exhibitions—Habitar una Nube by Adrián Sosa and I Carry the Sun on My Shoulder and the World Turns Yellow by Edison Peñafiel—offering audiences distinct yet resonant contemporary perspectives grounded in immersive installation, materiality, and embodied experience. The reception provides a shared moment of exploration, conversation, and connection with the artists’ work.
Location:
The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery
601 City Center Way, Pembroke Pines, Florida 33025
Admission: Free and open to the public
