Patria y Vida is a large-scale light sculpture that defends and celebrates people’s right to peacefully protest by using the barricade as a symbol of global resistance. For No Vacancy, the artists recreated the activist gesture from the Pro-Democracy Protests in Hong Kong, where protestors subverted the use of barricades set out by police and repurposed them to create an insurgent force for their own protection.For Patria y Vida, 25 crowd-control barricades with LED lights are arranged in a disorderly composition to represent acts of resistance.
Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares were the winners of the No Vacancy Juror’s Choice Award for their public artwork installed on the beach outside the Faena Hotel during Art Basel/Miami Art Week.
Photo Credit: Rudy Duboué
