LTC 135-2024 New Date for Elevate Espanola - Heliotropic Seekers by Beatriz ChachamovitsMIAMI BEACH
OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER
LTC# 135-2024
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LETTER TO COMMISSION
Honorable Mayor Steven Meiner and Members of the City Commission
Rickelle Williams, Interim City Manager ?(a)
April 10, 2024
New Date for Elevate Espanola -Heliotropic Seekers by Beatriz
Chachamovits
The purpose of this Letter to Commission (L TC) is to update to the Mayor and City Commission
regarding the fifth Elevate Espanola temporary public art commission. The event has been
rescheduled for Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 5:30 pm on Espanola Way between Washington
and Collins avenues.
For its Spring 2024 installation, the City of Miami Beach is pleased to present Heliotropic Seekers,
a newly commissioned art installation by Brazilian artist Beatriz Chachamovits. The work will be
the fifth installment of the city's Elevate Espanola series of site-specific installations over Espanola
Way.
He/iotropic Seekers will feature five (5) brightly colored hanging plexiglass cutouts of various
endangered species native to South Florida shores, including grouper, angel, grunt, blue tang and
parrot fish together with coral species such as elkhorn, pillar, stag horn, star, starlet and brain coral.
By engaging with the natural world, viewers will be prompted to consider how their behavior may
affect coral reefs and inspire action to care for the world's oceans .
. The installation will also include a mural component in collaboration with students from Miami
Beach Senior High School. This exhibition will be on display until the end of May 2024.
About the Artist
Beatriz Chachamovits is an environmental artist and educator from Sao Paulo, Brazil living and
working in Miami, Florida. Her work renders tangible the decline of the coral reef ecosystems, and
the role played by humans in it. Her intention is to share the majestic beauty of at-risk marine
ecologies as well as the appalling rate of their destruction. Selected solo shows include "White
Sea" at Galeria Tata in Sao Paulo, Brazil (2017), "Into the Great Dying: Waters We Share" at
Faena Art Project Room (2022) "Our Changing Seas" at the Frost Science Museum (2022).
Selected group shows include National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, "Coral Expedition: 1865 -2018"
(2018) The Phillip and Patricia Frost Science Museum "Transitional Nature" (2020), and the Art
and Cultural Center of Hollywood "C[h]oral Stories and Collective Actions" (2022).
ELEVATE ESPANOLA
Beatriz Chachamovits, Heliotropic Seekers
CELEBRA TIO N
THURSDAY, A PR IL 18 AT 5:30 PM
Espanola Way and Washington Avenue
_C I_TY_O_F_M_IA_M_I _BE_A_CH M IA M I BEACH
TEM PO RA RY PUBLIC ART IN STALLA TI O N S
For more information, please contact Lissette Garcia Arrogante, Director of Tourism and Culture
at lissettearrogante@miamibeachfl.gov.
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