ule ole allez
Locust Projects
Miami, FL

November 29, 2022 - February 4, 2023

Creating a vestige of community action, ule ole allez presents an exhibition that conflates drawing and sculpture through physical interactions. As an extension of Quevedo’s drawing practice, the artist invited local players to play futsal (5v5) matches with chalk-covered and ink-coated balls. The matches are captured through marks left behind on the gallery’s walls and floors creating an accumulation of color and action. Quevedo’s new video piece, Sol y Sombra, records interviews with Luis Carlos Perea (former Colombian national team player) and Valentine Simon (commissioner of the AGC League) to pay tribute to the notion of duality and adaptability as part of play and starting fresh in a new city.

Combined, the live matches, floor drawing, and new works serve as a metaphor for the collective migrant experience. For Quevedo, the experience of displacement is defined by adaptation, memory, and transformation. The defined movement of sports echoes this adaptability. Games like futsal enable a subversive transformation in players, freeing them from oppressive societal rules and expectations. By centering sports, Quevedo invokes an architectural and narrative space where boundaries are malleable, limits are negotiable, and competition is a generative force for evolving identities.