Language is liquid
Language is liquid is a meditation on the fluid nature of words – how they remain malleable, porous, and never fully contained. Meaning reshapes itself constantly, influenced by emotion, memory, culture, and place.
The panels depict the Miami Beach shoreline at sunrise and sunset, moments when light and water blur into one another and refuse a fixed edge. Their shifting horizon mirrors the movement of language itself. Anchoring the installation is the glowing phrase Language is liquid – a reminder, or perhaps a question, that meaning is never still, and that understanding is something we enter, wade through, and continually rediscover.
About the Artist:
Amanda Keeley is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of printmaking, sculpture, and language. Through artists’ books, installations, and collaborative projects, her work engages typography, semiotics, and literature as spatial and social tools that shape how meaning is constructed and shared.
Keeley’s works are found in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; the New York Public Library; and the Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway, among others. Keeley founded Exile Books in 2014 which has produced more than 50 books and zines with artists and whose mobile bookshops evolved the concept of a community bookshop and community collaboration. Keeley has also published multiple artists’ books of her own, most recently, Words to Sea, a book that quite literally dissolves in water as the reader removes pages from the book releasing the text in a collaborative act of calm mindfulness and self-reflection.
Location
Windows @ Walgreens
74th Street and Collins Ave
Miami Beach
