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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLegacy Purchase 2025 Winner City of Miami Beach, 1700 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33139, www.miamibeachfl.gov OFFICE OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS, Tel: 305.673.7575 Press Release Melissa Berthier, Email: melissaberthier@miamibeachfl.gov Linda-Lee Stevens, Email: lindastevens@miamibeachfl.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec. 3, 2025 City of Miami Beach Names Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Modulations - Sequence XXIX as Winner of 2025 Legacy Purchase Program Selected Artwork Joins City’s Permanent Public Art Collection Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Modulations - Sequence XXIX, 2025. Copper rope, 61.42 x 39.37 in. Courtesy the artist and Livia Benavides Gallery. Miami Beach, FL – Today, the City of Miami Beach is pleased to announce that Modulations - Sequence XXIX, by Ximena Garrido-Lecca, represented by Livia Benavides Gallery, has been selected by Miami Beach residents and members of the public as this year’s acquisition for the Legacy Purchase Program. An annual initiative, the city’s Art in Public Places Committee selected artworks by Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Patrick Dean-Hubbell, and Ken Tisa from a pool of applications from the emerging artists of the Art Basel Miami Beach Positions, Nova, as well as newcomers and recent entrants to the Galleries sector presenting early-career artists. The public then voted among the finalists, selecting Ximena Garrido-Lecca’s Modulations - Sequence XXIX for accession into the city’s public art collection. 2 “This year’s Legacy Purchase not only strengthens our city’s public art landscape, but also reinforces Miami Beach’s standing as a global destination for creative innovation,” said Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner. “The enthusiastic community involvement throughout this process shows just how deeply our residents value art’s ability to inspire, to reflect our stories, and to shape the cultural identity we share.” In her Modulations series, Ximena Garrido-Lecca continues to explore the role of copper in Peru’s economy, where this natural resource is exported as a raw material for its use in tech industries. These new works integrate a series of abstract symbols inspired by modernist corporate logos used by diverse industries and corporate entities. By using these geometric symbols in a traditional woven form, she questions the relation between these modern images, tied to the engines of modernization and the global economy, and their links to pre-Columbian abstraction. The work also highlights the demand for accelerated growth and modernization in the context of a growing economy, under unregulated natural resource extraction, which often does not generate investment in local infrastructure and social welfare, but instead favors corporate gain. “It is a privilege for our gallery to see Ximena’s work added to the Legacy Purchase Program as part of the City of Miami Beach’s Art in Public Places Collection, especially alongside the works of other internationally recognized artists,” said Livia Benavides. Ximena Garrido-Lecca (b. Lima, 1980) lives and works between Mexico City and Lima. Recent solo exhibitions include Reverse Engineering at CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2023), and Inflorescence at Portikus, Frankfurt (2022). Her works have also been featured in major international exhibitions such as the 2025 Sharjah Biennial; the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India, and the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, and are included in public collections such as the Guggenheim, Tate Modern, London; Boros Collection, Berlin, Germany; Kadist Foundation, Paris/ San Francisco; The Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart; the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Argentina; and Museo de Arte de Lima, among others. ### About the Legacy Purchase Program The Legacy Purchase Program began in 2019, acquiring world-class art pieces for the city’s public collection and growing in value as artists further their professional careers. This program seeks to strategically expand the City’s current public art collection by pursuing artwork that is reflective of our community, aligned with the curatorial direction of our existing collection, reflects artistic excellence and relevance in terms of current artistic practices, and is a valuable investment to the Art in Public Places Collection. Previous acquisitions include works from Juana Valdés, Sanford Biggers, Amoako Boafo, Ebony G. Patterson, and Farah Al Qasimi. About the City of Miami Beach Art in Public Places Program Art in Public Places Committee is a seven-member city board responsible for the commission and purchase of artwork by contemporary artists in all media. The program allocates funds totaling 2% of hard costs for City projects and joint private/public projects. Funds from construction projects may be aggregated into the Art in Public Places Fund and allocated for artwork at public sites and for collection maintenance. 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