Incorporating paintings, sculpture and interactive installations, Lara Favaretto: Blind Spot presents an arrangement of new and recent works alongside ongoing series from the artist’s practice. The exhibition also features a new, site-specific work commissioned for the museum’s permanent collection.

Favaretto embraces the idea of constant change, creating works of art and situations that are in flux. Though often humorous and playful, her works address more serious matters such as decay, consumption and loss. Using elements like obsolete technologies to subtly refer to the passing of time, Favaretto incorporates found materials that are repurposed in her work. These upcycled materials – such as found paintings, discarded books and weathered construction materials – serve as commentary on the lifecycle of material detritus. Favaretto’s oeuvre highlights her interest in exploring ideas of the survival of certain objects over others, while contemplating their legitimacy in relation to the forgotten and exposing their inevitable destiny of wear, corrosion, erosion and breakage.

Highlights from Blind Spot will include Favaretto’s interactive installation Momentary Monument – The Library (2012-2019), a bookcase displaying 2,000 books gathered in Miami and saved from their destined disposal. Each book contains folded images from the artist’s archive, printed onto a sheet of mould-made paper. Beginning in 1995, the archive constitutes a sort of visual reservoir that feeds all of her artistic production. Additional works include a silver plaque with a slit for putting in coins for charity that bears an engraving filled with Savoy-blue enamel forming the words “Your Money Here”; and a newly commissioned, site-specific work for The Bass’ permanent collection, Gummo VI (2019), an installation comprising five automated car wash brushes constantly twirling and wearing themselves down against metal plates. The exhibition will also feature new works from other ongoing series including wool paintings and scaffolding tube sculptures.