La ville de Miami Beach désigne Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Modulations – Sequence XXIX, lauréate du programme d'acquisition de projets patrimoniaux 2025.

Miami Beach, Floride – Today, the City of Miami Beach is pleased to announce that Modulations - Séquence XXIX, by Ximena Garrido-Lecca, represented by Livia Benavides Gallery, has been selected by Miami Beach residents and members of the public as this year’s acquisition for the Legacy Purchase Program.

An annual initiative, the city’s Art in Public Places Committee selected artworks by Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Patrick Dean-Hubbell, and Ken Tisa from a pool of applications from the emerging artists of the Art Basel Miami Beach Positions, Nova, as well as newcomers and recent entrants to the Galleries sector presenting early-career artists. The public then voted among the finalists, selecting Ximena Garrido-Lecca’s Modulations - Séquence XXIX for accession into the city’s public art collection.

“This year’s Legacy Purchase not only strengthens our city’s public art landscape, but also reinforces Miami Beach’s standing as a global destination for creative innovation,” said Le maire de Miami Beach, Steven Meiner. “The enthusiastic community involvement throughout this process shows just how deeply our residents value art’s ability to inspire, to reflect our stories, and to shape the cultural identity we share.”

Dans son Modulations series, Ximena Garrido-Lecca continues to explore the role of copper in Peru’s economy, where this natural resource is exported as a raw material for its use in tech industries. These new works integrate a series of abstract symbols inspired by modernist corporate logos used by diverse industries and corporate entities. By using these geometric symbols in a traditional woven form, she questions the relation between these modern images, tied to the engines of modernization and the global economy, and their links to pre-Columbian abstraction. The work also highlights the demand for accelerated growth and modernization in the context of a growing economy, under unregulated natural resource extraction, which often does not generate investment in local infrastructure and social welfare, but instead favors corporate gain.

“It is a privilege for our gallery to see Ximena’s work added to the Legacy Purchase Program as part of the City of Miami Beach’s Art in Public Places Collection, especially alongside the works of other internationally recognized artists,” said Livia Benavides.

Ximena Garrido-Lecca (b. Lima, 1980) lives and works between Mexico City and Lima. Recent solo exhibitions include Reverse Engineering at CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2023), and Inflorescence at Portikus, Frankfurt (2022). Her works have also been featured in major international exhibitions such as the 2025 Sharjah Biennial; the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India, and the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, and are included in public collections such as the Guggenheim, Tate Modern, London; Boros Collection, Berlin, Germany; Kadist Foundation, Paris/ San Francisco; The Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart; the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Argentina; and Museo de Arte de Lima, among others.

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À propos du programme d'achat Legacy

Le Programme d'acquisition d'œuvres patrimoniales, lancé en 2019, a permis d'enrichir la collection publique de la ville d'œuvres d'art de renommée internationale, dont la valeur augmente au fur et à mesure que les artistes développent leur carrière. Ce programme vise à développer stratégiquement la collection d'art public de la ville en acquérant des œuvres qui reflètent notre communauté, s'inscrivent dans la ligne éditoriale de notre collection actuelle, témoignent d'une excellence artistique et d'une pertinence au regard des pratiques artistiques contemporaines, et constituent un investissement précieux pour la collection « Art dans l'espace public ». Parmi les acquisitions précédentes figurent des œuvres de Juana Valdés, Sanford Biggers, Amoako Boafo, Ebony G. Patterson et Farah Al Qasimi.

À propos du programme Art dans les lieux publics de la ville de Miami Beach

Le Comité Art dans les lieux publics est un conseil municipal composé de sept membres, chargé de la commande et de l'achat d'œuvres d'art d'artistes contemporains, tous médias confondus. Ce programme alloue un total de 21 TP3T de fonds de coûts fixes pour des projets municipaux et des projets conjoints privés-publics. Les fonds issus de projets de construction peuvent être regroupés dans le Fonds Art dans les lieux publics et affectés à l'art dans les lieux publics et à l'entretien des collections.

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