The Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) invites you to an evening of embodied exploration. In the spirit of Miami’s ever-evolving landscape, art, movement, and wellness will converge at the Freedom Tower. Performance artist and educator Smita Sens works at the intersection of sculpture, dance-based performance, and advanced technology, researching how the body internalizes its environment and the weight of lived experience. Her practice explores how the human body becomes a living document — storing tension, movement, memory, and emotion across a lifetime.
Sens will lead visitors through the Abstraction as Legacy exhibition, drawing connections between the works on view and the language of her own practice, inviting us to see abstract art not as something to be decoded, but as something to be felt, moved through, and moved by.
Following the tour, the evening deepens with Ressonnance, a sound and wellness collective founded by YoungArts Jazz Trumpet Awardee Alum Stéphane Clément and sonic architect Nicolaus Gelin. Clément weaves his German Haitian heritage into a rich jazz foundation, while Gelin crafts soundscapes that dissolve the boundary between music and transcendence. Together, they will compose a live response to the space and the works within it.
In collaboration, Sens and Ressonnance will lead a performance that invites guests to let the body find in sound and motion a new way of moving through art. This program offers an alternative way of navigating abstraction, not through the mind alone, but through the body, the breath, and the resonance of sound. Attendees may park for free in MDC’s Parking Lot 1 located on the south side of the Freedom Tower, between NE Fifth and NE Sixth Streets. The Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) at MDC may document the event, including its attendees. By entering the area, and/or participating in the event, you consent to the recording and its use in any form.
This MOAD program is made possible with the support of the Art Bridges Foundation.
Image: Abstraction as Legacy installation view, May 22, 2026. Photo by Oriol Tarridas.
