Throughout history, art has provided a beacon for humanity in tumultuous times. In this moment of dynamic global change and rupture, art continues to guide us through uncertainty. This exhibition, embodying the mission and vision of Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), invites us to reflect on our shared existence and inherent ability to shape our own reality. Taking its title from a work by the Cuban artist Glenda León, Every Sound Is a Shape of Time explores humanism and beauty drawing from the collection’s strengths in a plurality of voices. This exhibition features twenty- one works by seventeen diverse artists, from abstract paintings to examples of photo- and text-based conceptualism. The show includes works by León, Luis Camnitzer, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Helen Frankenthaler, Alfredo Jaar, Jennie C. Jones, Julie Mehretu, Robert Morris, Lydia Okumura, Richard Serra, and Lawrence Weiner, among others.

Every Sound is a Shape of Time brings together some of the artist’s visual scores taken into different engraving techniques. They suggest, from an invented coincidence, an analogy between musical notes and some familiar images for the human being such as a leaf of a tree, a flying bird, a drop of rain, the lights of a city, a dice, a star, or even the typical dots of Braille system. In this sense, they allude to the interconnection between all elements in the Universe and to our intrinsic power to create our own world. In the same way, they incite us to appreciate beauty in those common or quotidian details that we usually unnotice, by transforming them into sound and also silent images. They are an instance, so frequent in the artist’s work, to listening to the images and to observe the sounds.