Untitled Miami Beach 2025

Edgar Orlaineta & Ioanna Limniou

Swivel Gallery is pleased to present a dual booth at this year’s edition of Untitled Miami Beach, featuring new bodies of work by Edgar Orlaineta and Ioanna Limniou. Bringing together two distinct yet conceptually intertwined practices, the presentation explores how materiality, memory, and history intertwine to shape our understanding of the contemporary world. Through sculpture and painting, Orlaineta and Limniou each engage in acts of transformation—of objects, images, and lived experience—revealing the poetic potential embedded within the everyday.

December 3rd-December 7th

Ocean Drive and 12th Street, Miami Beach, Florida

The presentation unfolds as a dialogue between two artistic languages that meet at the intersection of form and narrative. Both artists consider how cultural memory and material culture evolve over time, and how meaning can be reactivated through processes of reinterpretation and recontextualization. Orlaineta’s sculptural interventions and Limniou’s layered, emotive compositions share a sensitivity to the histories that materials and gestures carry—histories that bridge the personal and the collective, the tangible and the imagined.

Orlaineta’s hybrid objects, often derived from the visual and material vocabulary of postwar modernism, question how design, industry, and ideology shape our relationship to form. His sculptures challenge the fetishization of the modern object, dismantling its cultural and economic hierarchies to reveal new layers of significance. Limniou, meanwhile, turns her attention to the human presence within the landscape—depicting figures engaged in acts of labor, ritual, and communion. Her work evokes the enduring rhythms of rural life and folk tradition, positioning the landscape not as backdrop but as an active force of memory and transformation.

Together, Orlaineta and Limniou transform materials—wood, metal, pigment, and canvas—into vessels of reflection on how human histories are inscribed into matter. Both artists probe the mutable nature of meaning: how objects once functional can become symbolic, how gestures once ordinary can become sacred. Their practices invite viewers into a contemplative space where art becomes a site of renewal, in which the residues of history and the poetics of the present coexist.

Through this shared exploration, Swivel Gallery’s presentation at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2025 becomes an immersive study of transformation—of the ways form, memory, and material intertwine to reveal new dimensions of human experience.