Background

Beginning in 2020, Geographies of Trash stands as an extraordinary durational artwork, giving life to over 6,000 distinct works since its inception (over 1,300 NFTs certified on Ethereum blockchain) mitigating the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Faced with the global crisis, Ahol embarked on a personal transformative journey, exchanging booze for bikes, which he translated into a powerful community engagement project symbolizing not only his own evolution but also his response to the prevailing uncertainties in the world. As more time spent on his bike turned into hunts for discarded items to repurpose into art for the Miami community, the reciprocal support from the community grew rapidly into a local phenomenon and a symbiotic dynamic between the artist and his collectors. Since the commencement of the project there have been three formal exhibitions at which these collectors have been invited to display their found artworks, recontextualizing what was once trash in locations ranging from a luxury downtown penthouse, a collector’s Alapattah home and a North Miami contemporary art gallery, each one distinct in place and purpose. ​

Biscayne World | Feria Clandestina

​This year’s iteration, Biscayne World, marks an exciting change in direction for the project, turning the typical art fair dynamic of elitists flooding stuffy white cubicles to buy trophy objects for their private collections in impersonal, cold transactions into an accessible experience in which everyday people are being brought together to bring the humanity into art collecting in an untraditional art fair setting. Ahol’s followers are being invited to submit the pieces they’ve scavenged from around the Miami-Dade area to an open call, a selection of which will be chosen by curator and long-time supporter Zack Spechler. These works will be on view, many of which will be for sale at each collector’s discretion, within the Seven Seas Hotel alongside original interactive artworks including a claw machine, mimicking the trash hunt on a small-scale and housing new works released just for the duration of the fair. 

Visit the Shop for limited edition Fractionalized Trash or to buy original pieces from the exhibition.

About the Artist 

Ahol, whose raw yet instantly recognizable street murals evaporate the divide between high and low art, often jumbles disparate themes from mass media, popular culture and marginalized pockets of society. He often draws inspiration from the urban environment and systems of society which dehumanize its inhabitants. Ahol’s deceptively simple, yet complex renderings both portray the veneer of our everyday surroundings and the dull, job-related conflicts often encountered in a dysfunctional workplace. The South Florida native is best known for his soaring urban murals depicting expansive fields of drowsy eyes, reflecting his unique vision of life, labor and unrequited love of the mean streets of Miami.

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