"The City of Miami Beach has acquired Modulations - Sequence XXIX (2025), a sculpture of woven copper rope by the Peruvian artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca from the Lima-based Livia Benavides Gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach, following a public vote. The work is from Garrido-Lecca's Modulations series, in which she turns patterns based on mining companies' logos into the basis for abstract weavings made of copper as a commentary on the ecological and labour impacts of the industry."
""It is a privilege for our gallery to see Ximena's work added to the Legacy Purchase Program as part of the City of Miami Beach's Art in Public Places Collection, especially alongside the works of other internationally recognised artists," Livia Benavides said in a statement. The gallery has another work from Garrido-Lecca's Modulations series on its stand at the fair."
Miami Beach acquired Modulations - Sequence XXIX (2025), a woven copper-rope sculpture by Ximena Garrido-Lecca, through a public vote at Art Basel Miami Beach. The sculpture is part of the Modulations series, which converts mining-company logo patterns into abstract copper weavings that comment on ecological damage and labor impacts caused by mining. The work connects Peru's long textile traditions with copper, a major national export. Peru is the world's third-largest copper producer, exporting about $23bn in 2024, with only a small share sent to the US. The piece is installed on the second floor of the Miami Beach Convention Center.
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