Diego Waisman: For I Shall Already Have Forgotten You
University of Miami Gallery, Wynwood, Miami, FL
July 17 - August 30, 2024
Despite the last economic recession, cities across the US have seen a rebound in real-estate value. As a result, land appreciation has allowed developers to target low-income neighborhoods, paving the way for gentrification. As one South Florida reporter suggested, Mobile Home Park communities have become the “low-hanging fruit for developers.” The disappearance of these Mobile Home Park communities is expanding homelessness and affecting the ever-shrinking inventory of affordable housing.
In a collection of images that are both quiet and telling, For I Shall Already Have Forgotten You portrays the vulnerabilities experienced by residents of South Florida’s mobile home communities amid rapid urban transformation and the threat of economic displacement. Photographer Diego Alejandro Waisman captures a fractured sense of place in Miami-area neighborhoods that once flourished but are now increasingly forgotten.
The exhibition will be accompanied by Waisman’s forthcoming monograph, Sunset Colonies (University Press of Florida: 2024).
Deigo Waisman, image from the exhibition, For I Shall Already Have Forgotten You.
