LOS NADIES [The Nobodies]

Los Nadies was commissioned by The Ringling Museum of Art for Nuestro Vaivén (Our Sway), the museum’s first major exhibition dedicated to contemporary Latin American art. The work unfolds as eight monumental fabric banners forming a continuous procession shaped by protest, migration, celebration, and collective survival across the Americas.

The project emerged through conversations with guest curator Amy Rosenblum-Martín, community curator Javi Suárez, and community leader Gloria Noemy López Herrera, and is presented in dialogue with a central sculptural work by my exhibition partner Francisco Masó. Nuestro Vaivén brings together 22 artists from 11 Latin American nations and 11 Florida counties, pairing artists with community leaders to create installations rooted in exchange, lived experience, and shared histories.

Participating artists in Nuestro Vaivén include: Adrián Gómez, Emily Martínez, Yanira Collado, Manuela González, Francisco Masó, Edison Peñafiel, Karen Arango, Rigoberto Torres, william cordova, Diana Eusebio, Yessica Gispert, Nicario Jiménez, Tatiana Mesa Paján, Carola Miles, Glexis Novoa, Charo Oquet, Libbi Ponce, Gabriel Ramos, Selina Román, Destyni “desi” Swoope, Marisa Tellería, and Juana Valdés.

The exhibition is guided by Amy Rosenblum-Martín’s curatorial question, “Who’s talking to whom?”, and supported by the vision and leadership of The Ringling Museum of Art, including Executive Director Steven High, Chief Curator Sarah Cartwright, and exhibition advisors Francine Birbragher-Rozenwaig and Mercedes Soler-Martínez.