Artists in Residence exhibition “tide lines of frame” at Green Space Miami, on view from September 13 through December 14, 2025.

WOPHA / 09.10.2025

WOPHA presents the two-person exhibition “tide lines of the frame” at Green Space Miami, featuring works by 2025 Artists-in-Residence Kat Thompson and Nathyfa Michel. Curated by cecilia gonzález godino, Interim Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, the exhibition examines the entanglements of memory, landscape, and visual culture across fractured geographies.

Moving through personal archives, speculative histories, and inherited imaginaries, “tide lines of the frame” unsettles the presumed neutrality of the image and challenges the politics of image-making in the Caribbean and its diasporas. Here, photography is not a referential document but a surface that decomposes, bleeds, resists. The gallery space becomes a site of layered looking—where tourism, displacement, and ancestral memory converge in a visual grammar of resistance and reimagining.

Through image, video, collage, and material experimentation, Thompson and Michel reclaim narrative and territory, asking how not only bodies, but also objects and landscapes carry the weight of what has been silenced, commodified, or denied. Their gestures subvert the heavy visual culture that once framed the Caribbean as consumable spectacle, revealing instead the absence of true archival care.

The frame is not neutral. Like a coastline, it is shaped by what moves through it—power, gaze, history, memory. In the artists’ hands, ecosystems—wetlands, currents, sediments—become active memory spaces, migrating and reconfiguring the frame.

Exhibition: tide lines of the frame
Curator: cecilia gonzález godino
On view: September 13 – December 14, 2025.
Opening: Saturday, September 13, 2022 | 3 – 7 pm
Location: Green Space Miami (7200 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33138, United States)

About the artists

Kat Thompson is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Virginia. She holds an MFA in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BFA in Photography from George Mason University. Rooted in her Jamaican heritage, Thompson’s lens-based practice spans photography, textiles, sculptural collage, and installation to explore Black selfhood within the African Diaspora

Nathyfa Michel is a Caribbean photographer born in Réunion Island, to a Guianese father and a French mother. Her practice focuses on the intricate layers of Caribbean and Amazonian identity at the intersection of intimate and collective history. She explores dynamics of transmission, searching for a “home” reinvented through rhizomatic and hybrid imagination. 

About the curator

cecilia gonzález godino is Interim Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia and the former Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She is a curator, writer, and researcher engaging with contemporary art from transoceanic, diasporic, and archipelagic frameworks, always drawn by water and a yearning for geological poetics that she inherited from her long maritime family history. Cecilia holds a Master of Arts from New York University and is a PhD Candidate in Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. 

About the WOPHA Artist-in-Residence program

Since its launch in 2020, the WOPHA Artist-in-Residence program has been a vital platform for supporting emerging and mid-career women and non-binary artists working with photography. Presented in partnership with El Espacio 23, this month-long residency provides dedicated time and space for creative development, enabling artists to immerse themselves in research, experimentation, and community engagement while connecting with Miami’s vibrant cultural landscape.

Exhibition credits

“tide lines of the frame” is made possible thanks to the support of the Pérez CreARTE Grant Program by The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation and the Green Family Foundation. Cultural partners include El Espacio 23, Green Space Miami, and La Station Culturelle. Additional support was provided by Villa Albertine Miami.

WOPHA year-long programs are made possible with leading support from the Mellon Foundation, Green Family Foundation, The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation, and WOPHA’s Board of Directors. Additional program support is provided by the Florida Department of State, the Division of Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts; the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, and the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Cultural partners include Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), The Betsy Hotel, El Espacio 23, PAMM’s Caribbean Cultural Institute, Green Space Miami, Rubell Museum, and The Bunker Artspace.