Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College presents SUPERFLEX: We Are All in the Same Boat, the first large-scale exhibition of the critically acclaimed Danish collective SUPERFLEX in the United States. The exhibition will focus on the group’s humorous and playfully subversive installations and films that deal with the economy, financial crisis, corruption, migration, and the possible consequences of global warming.

The exhibition will include a group of video, sculpture, and installation works selected for their relevance to the history, present, and future of the City of Miami. The works will reflect upon the situation of Miami from the perspectives of art, finance, climate, and a fictional, if plausible, future. The topics of water, migration, refugees, and the economy inevitably drive the conception.
The exhibition features major new works—We Are All in the Same Boat and Euphoria Now— as well as Lost Money (2009), in which the artists affix coins to the floor, inviting both the visitors’ acquisitiveness and frustration. The video Flooded McDonald’s (2009) depicts just that, an entirely convincing replica of an uninhabited fast-food franchise slowly filling with water in a deadpan apocalyptic deluge. A vanitas painting extended in time, at ten days (240 hours) in length, Modern Times Forever (2011) is billed as “the longest film ever made,” and depicts Helsinki’s landmark Stora Enso building, designed by Alvar Aalto in 1962, as it falls into ruin and decay over the course of 5,000 years. The banners of Bankrupt Banks (2012) bear the corporate logos of failed financial institutions, representing an ironically triumphal celebration of global economic crisis since 2008.

In The Corrupt Show (2013) visitors accept the bribe of a lollipop to sign a contract that commits them to actively participate, and to solicit others to participate, in corruption, as defined by the United Nations Convention against Corruption. The film Kwassa Kwassa (2015) follows a group of fishing boat builders on the island of Anjouan, part of the Comoro Islands, off Africa’s southeastern coast. From there, fiberglass boats carry hopeful migrants seventy kilometers to Mayotte, a French territory that is the outermost region of the European Union. Yet more than 10,000 people have died making the dangerous journey.

The exhibition will also include the American premiere of SUPERFLEX’s newest film, Western Rampart (2018). Named after the Vestvolden, the last historical fortifications constructed to protect the city of Copenhagen, the work obliquely considers borders and migration through a conversation between a wall and of a giant anthropomorphic mushroom.

$12 adults; $8 seniors and military; $5 students (13–17) and college students (with valid ID); free for MOAD members, MDC students, faculty, and staff, and children 12 and under.