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by Vittoria Benzine & Richard Whiddington

We’ve handpicked the gallery shows worth venturing to during this Miami Art Week, from the dreamy visions of Marlon Portales at Spinello Projects to Camilo Godoy’s motion-infused debut with Dot Fiftyone.

Tis the season! Art lovers have alighted in Miami Beach kicking the city’s annual art week into full swing. While the main circuit of art fairs, events, and buzzy museum exhibitions offer an overabundance of world-class art, Miami galleries are also worth a gander—but where to start?

We’ve handpicked our must-see gallery exhibitions to see during Miami Art Week, from rising artist debuts to a historic reappraisal.

“Estefania Puerta: The Ghost in the Hallway” at Nina Johnson, Through January 4th, 2024

Scroll through Estefania Puerta’s Instagram and you’ll encounter a photograph of the artist bathing in a Roman fountain. Taken during Puerta’s time at the American Academy in Rome, the fountain is a playful reflection of a subject at the center of her new show at Nina Johnson—namely, the ability of something to simultaneously function as “place, object, and a literary document of sorts” (a slab of marble above the fountain is inscribed with its benefactors).

Though Puerta openly draws from the reliquaries and sarcophagi she encountered in Rome, “The Ghost in the Hallway” doesn’t feel conventionally morbid. Reproduction Question presents a purple plexiglass coffee table that it itself can be read. A trio of mounted wall pieces appear like elongated flowers with shimmering silver petals, inside each one contains drawings and trinkets (Roman postcard, chewing gum, artist’s spit) though you likely won’t spot them.

Read the article in full online on Artnet.