Chiachio & Giannone, the hand embroidery specialists who celebrated twenty years of working together in 2024, presented an exceptional panel at ArtBasel in Miami called La Famille Dans La Joyeuse Verdure (The Family in the Joyful Greenery). The piece is based on naïve paintings of Henri Rousseau, who followed to the letter the stories about fauna and flora of the French army when it resided in Mexico. Added to this appropriation is the queer excess characteristic of Chiachio (1969) & Giannone (1964), self-portraiting themselves with their unconventional family. The monumental textile piece was acquired by collector Andrés Buhar, promoter of Arthaus, for a six-figure sum in dollars.

In Miami's Faena Beach, a site-specific installation invites us to consider the fraught legacy of colonization, both in the impact of extractive practices on the natural world and on indigenous existence. It is a pinch to the Universal History of a topic that we assume almost with indifference: the appropriation of the culture of one continent by another that believes itself to be “developed.”