The exhibition features new works, including a collection of 10 large format mixed-media compositions on canvas, alongside a multichannel video installation. A piercing play on words, Land Escape introduces viewers to larger than life muted and masked characters navigating the confines of their vibrant backdrops. Hung all around the walls and fenced in by a literal barrier of barbed wire, viewers approach these portraits as outsiders, traversing the same colored plains - the forbidding partition making even more evident the separation between the viewers and the displaced characters. Also on view, a seemingly eternal timeline of travelers in black and white is presented in a triptych video installation that references early French cinema and German Expressionism. Informed by Peñafiel's personal migration history, forced to leave his native country due to its political and economic instability, ​Land Escape punctuates his continued concern in the complex and ever growing migrant narrative in the hope that it becomes a catalyst for reflection and dialogue.

Land Escape was produced and presented with the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Challenge Miami. Additional support provided by Broward County Cultural Division, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, FATVillage Arts District, ArtSeen365, and MAD.