Ronny Quevedo: ule ole allez | Nov 2022 - Feb 2023

Locust Projects presents ule ole allez, a new site-specific installation by Ecuador-born, Bronx-based artist Ronny Quevedo that honors the passion for play found in Miami’s Caribbean, Central, and South American soccer and futsal communities.
As an extension of Quevedo’s drawing practice, the artist invited local players to activate the gallery by playing futsal matches with chalk and ink covered balls. As a form of collaboration their play and movements were captured through marks left behind on the gallery’s walls and floors creating an accumulation of color and action. A vestige of community action, ule ole allez presents a new development in Quevedo’s creative trajectory with an exhibition that conflates drawing and sculpture through physical interactions with the gallery and the viewer by inviting Miami’s soccer community to participate in its creation.
A series of small drawings and sculptures accompany a new video work that foregrounds play as a transformative and empowering act of migration and movement. Combined, the live matches, floor drawing, and new works serve as a metaphor for the collective migrant experience.
The exhibition is made possible, in part, through support from Funding Arts Network.
Video by Locust Projects
Locust Projects 2022-2023 exhibitions and programming are made possible with support from: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Diane and Robert Moss; The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, The Children's Trust; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Ruth Foundation for the Arts; Florida, Department of State; The Miami Foundation; Diane and Werner Grob; Susan and Richard Arregui; The Albert and Jane Nahmad Family Foundation; The National Endowment for the Arts Art Works Grant; VIA Art Fund | Wagner Foundation Incubator Grant; Funding Arts Network; Hillsdale Fund; Kirk Foundation; and the Incubator Fund Supporting Sponsors and Friends.