COLLABORATIONS
In partnership with Art&Newport, The Great Elephant Migration collaborates with celebrated contemporary artists, inviting them to create unique works in response to the migration and its themes. Inspired by the elephants’ arrival in each city, past collaborators have included renowned artists such as Hadi Falapishi and Daniel Buren.
SEARCHERS
BY hADI fALAPISHI
To celebrate the start of The Great Elephant Migration, Hadi Falapishi created 100 paintings, sculptures, and other fanciful objects that coexist with and comment on the one-hundred strong elephant herd. Pulling together the ambivalence of being excited and scared of arriving in a new place, through an inversion of the notion of migration, he shifts the focus to the crowd receiving the new arrival. SEARCHERS explores themes of acceptance and curiosity, animating the act of looking, searching, and revealing the unknown with a sense of misplacement.
VOILE TOILE/TOILE VOILE
By Daniel Buren
In Miami, the elephants joined forces with Daniel Buren in a special Art Week collaboration to honor migrations across land and sea. Titled Voile/Toile–Toile/Voile (Sail/Canvas–Canvas/Sail), the work begins as performance art piece, with nine sailboats adorned with Buren’s signature stripes on their sails competing in a regatta, with olympic sailors at the helm. Following the regatta, the sails were displayed like paintings in order of their placement at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
With special thanks to Laser Performance for creating the sails & Miami Yacht Club for their support in the regatta.
MIAMI REEF STAR
By Carlos Betancourt & Alberto Latorre
The migration supports The ReefLine - a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring Miami’s coastal ecosystem and fostering environmental awareness through art. The ReefLine presented the stunning 'Miami Reef Star' alongside the elephants on Miami Beach during Art Week. Designed by Carlos Betancourt & Alberto Latorre, and curated by Ximena Caminos, these large-scale installations took inspiration from the captivating migration of starfish. They serve as a prototype for The ReefLine sculpture park to provide habitat for fish and coral.