Rafa Silvares & Jac Leirner

The Miami Edit is a focused series highlighting the practices and perspectives of the artists featured at this year's Art Basel Miami Beach. We look forward seeing you at our Booth J11 from 5–7 December, 2025.

One section will bring together works by Rafa Silvares and Jac Leirner. ⁠
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As though sampled beats looped on Silvares’s 808, taking the shape of Leirner’s Hip Hop, were bouncing back from the gallery walls, the exhibition stages the transposition of sound into color by uncovering their substantial form: frequency. Side by side, and one above the other, Leirner and Silvares extend their exploration of chromatic vibration into an ensemble of rhythmic interventions. Both artists draw on an untamed color palette, not shying away from vibrant hues, loud accentuation, or pointed contrasts. Yet, the deliberate placement of color in their respective work exhibits an aesthetic of sensorial fine-tuning. What drives the artists’s parsing of color through spatio-temporal unfolding, then, is not the chilled metrics of containment, but rather an enduring attraction to intensity, rhythm, and frequency.