Documenting Our Landscape

Join us for a conversation between artists Monica Sorelle and Monica Uszerowicz in conjunction with the exhibition Feels like 97°. The discussion will explore the ways in which both artists document the South Florida landscape and their vision for the future. The conversation will be moderated by the exhibition’s curator Michelle Lisa Polissaint.

About the Artists

Monica Sorelle is a Haitian-American filmmaker and artist born & based in Miami. Her work explores alienation and displacement, and preserves cultural traditions within Miami & the Caribbean with a focus on the African & Latin diasporas that reside there. She has produced and worked as a department head on films for Film Independent, A24, HBO & PBS. Her work has won awards at Berlinale, BlackStar, and Miami Film Festival and has been exhibited at Sundance, New Orleans Film Festival, and on Criterion Channel. Monica has recently completed an artist fellowship with Pérez Art Museum Miami’s Caribbean Cultural Institute and is currently a Cinematic Arts resident at Oolite Arts, where she is writing and developing her feature film directorial debut, Mountains.

Monica Uszerowicz is a writer and photographer based in Miami who covers Florida and the broader subtropical American South. Her work has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, The Believer, BOMB, Burnaway, Cultured, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, and in other publications. She is a 2020 Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant recipient. Her photographs have been exhibited globally and most recently on display at Oolite Arts as part of the group show Feels Like 97°.