Water State, projections in the courtyard by Alejandra Abad

Courtyard Outdoor Projections | Partnership with The Coral Springs Art Museum

Join Venezuelan artist Alejandra Abad for an engaging talk about her past projects, process, and recent work, including her upcoming experimental animated storytelling project, "Water State," which explores belonging and mutual compassion as key parts of collective wellness.

Share your story with her, and it will be projected outdoors during the Closing Reception at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center and will be part of her upcoming solo exhibition in 2025 and pop-installation at MODS during IGNITE 2025. Through outdoor digital projections, Abad will bring the Everglades and our natural world into urban spaces, sharing stories of refuge in Florida.

About Alejandra Abad:
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Alejandra Abad is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator who explores belonging and mutual compassion as key parts of collective wellness. Through layering, abstraction, and light, she creates new landscapes that relate to place, family, and community. Her playful storytelling often features fragmentation, folklore, and mythology. Her style is informed by architectural studies at Florida Atlantic University, Film/Video/New Media/Animation at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Interdisciplinary Media Art Practices at The University of Colorado. She uses analog and digital processes for the projection of moving images in public spaces which are rooted in her pedagogy of care. These processes often transform drawings, paintings, collages, prints, and handmade materials into audiovisual elements, animated shorts, visual essays, and site-specific installations that center around community, collaboration, and shared oral histories.

This has led to a series of works centered on environmental futures and the implications of the anthropocene. Her installation work creates environments that include sculptural elements and video projection that relate the history of anticolonial movements to international surrealism and magical realism – particularly from South America and the Caribbean – and how these elements are interconnected in new spaces. Her work features conceptual and collaborative pieces that work to break down the barriers between artist and audience.

Price FREE

Time 7PM

Venue Coral Springs Museum of Art

Address 2855A Coral Springs Drive
Coral Springs, FL 33065 GET DIRECTIONS

Phone Number 954.340.5000