The Olga de Amaral retrospective blends fiber art, identity, and scale at ICA Miami. Covering six decades, the exhibition brings together over 50 works originally shown at Fondation Cartier in Paris, exploring the Colombian artist’s transformative journey from early woven grids to monumental Estelas and ethereal Brumas.
Visitors encounter towering textiles suspended like immersive landscapes, their rich textures and metallic accents reflecting both natural and cultural narratives. Throughout, the works engage with material experimentation—gold and silver leaf, horsehair, cotton, and linen—pushing fiber beyond tapestry into sculptural form.
The exhibition’s arrangement evokes organic shifts in color and tone, inviting contemplation on memory, abstraction, and gendered craft. By situating de Amaral’s work within modernist and Latin American histories, the retrospective reasserts her legacy as a visionary who redefined textile as powerful, spatial art.
Image Credit: Kris Tamburello
