EVERY PEOPLE - Closing
Photography Exhibition, Installations
Celebrating Afro-Caribbean design through immersive, fashion, art and performance events featuring hand-made garments, photography and live music
CHARO OQUET'S Every People uses fashion, art, photography , video, and performance to explore identity and healing through a visual feast. Working with a team of artists and students, to build garments and accessories and design as a powerful medium to celebrate the richness of contemporary Afro-syncretic creativity. It will foreground the Afro-Caribbean roots of Miami’s Latinx diasporic culture through ritual, addressing anti-Blackness in Miami’s diverse communities. These will be presented in an immersive environment in a series of events to celebrate and recognize African diasporic traditions in vernacular culture, reclaiming fashion, beauty, and design as tools of resistance instead of consumerism and assimilation.
Participating Models: Jorja Corporan | Ella Estrella | Charlene Francois | Diamond Gabriel | Zipporah Hinds | Alina Melfi |Aeon Morales |Arielle Morales | Nataizya Laguerre | Jennifer Parra | Kamila Polese | Vera Ramirez| Marco Rivera Rosa, Jr. | Arianna Sanchez | Isabella Sanchez | Samantha Valdes | Nina Vara
Seaming: Abel Reyes, Juan Beltre, Diamond Gabriel, Maite Collection | Makeup: Izabela Cookson Jewelry: Charo Oquet | Production Assistant: Dannee Cuenca, Jason Morrison, Juan Ayala |Photography Assistant: Juan Ayala | Videography/Video Editing: Vidium | Styling /Hair: Claudia Ariano, Abel Reyes, Gabriela Keddell, Vera Ramirez