exhibition.
Curated by Sophie Bonet and Pamela 'Zee' Lopez
The Frank C. Ortis Gallery
Pembroke Pines, FL
Nov 21, 2024-Feb 22, 2025
Ebb & Flow: Exploring the Womanhood Continuum
Ebb & Flow draws us into the intricate tides of womanhood—a journey encompassing birth, growth, transformation, and inevitable change. Each phase contributes to a vast, interwoven tapestry of experience across time and culture. Featuring artists who explore themes of motherhood, identity, memory, and self-agency, the exhibition examines the personal narratives that define womanhood while probing the broader societal forces that shape our understanding of the human experience. The works span multiple disciplines, each engaging with the cycles of life, the gaze of society, and the heritage that connects us across generations and geographies.
Historically, the feminine body has been both celebrated and constrained—a symbol of creation, vitality, and regeneration, yet often confined by societal expectations. This exhibition reframes the body not merely as a physical form, but as a vessel of cultural and ancestral memory. The dialogue that emerges reveals womanhood as a continuum—one in which personal and collective histories intertwine to form a shared language of resilience, transformation, and becoming.
The cyclical rhythms of life—birth, aging, renewal—resonate here as both unbroken and nonlinear. In tactile, sensory, and poetic expressions, the artworks bridge individual introspection with collective memory. Body casts become archival forms; textiles become ritual containers; photographs become portals to the unseen. Rituals and spiritual legacies—whether rooted in Yoruba cosmologies or Indigenous preservation practices—underscore womanhood not as a fixed identity but as a lineage, carried forward through reverence, resistance, and renewal.
In Ebb & Flow, the silent narratives embedded in domestic and natural spaces are elevated, reminding us of the many roles women inhabit as caretakers, nurturers, makers, and memory-keepers. As rituals of the home and body are revisited, gestures like folding, weaving, and molding become acts of cultural preservation. By centering these quiet moments, the exhibition asks viewers to contemplate the strength passed through generations. Each work marks a point on a larger map of human experience, revealing womanhood as both personal and universal—a journey of discovery, loss, and reclamation. Like the tides, it is cyclical, transcendent, and enduring.
Exhibiting artists included Amanda Covach, Amy Gelb, Ana Albertina Delgado, Coralina Rodriguez Meyer, RPM Projects, Ivonne Ferrer, Lisu Vega, MaiYap, and Marina Font.



