MARINELLA SENATORE

–An Expanded Baroque Crown

Dec 1-6, 2026

Faena Miami Beach

Senatore will transform the Faena Cathedral with an inhabitable luminaria: a temporary architecture of light rooted in the traditions of public celebration in Southern Italy. Expanding the form of a Baroque crown, the installation will offer a space visitors can enter, move through and make their own.
 

Participation is central to Senatore's practice. Her light installations are conceived as places for people to gather and act, rather than monuments reserved for distant observation. At Faena, she imagines a social plaza within the Cathedral, opening possibilities for encounters among visitors, hotel guests and Miami communities who might not ordinarily share that space.
 

The crown will provide a setting for collective activity, hosting readings, dance, poetry, musical performances and other collective moments. The poetic phrase “the word community feels good” will sit around the perimeter of the crown, creating a space capable of containing many different identities, voices and possibilities. Senatore describes the language of her installations as emerging from years of work with communities, carrying those shared experiences into a new setting. As part of the community-driven aspect of her poetic work, Senatore will bring together special programming in collaboration with O, Miami.

Marinella Senatore Says: “Participation is not only a way of working for me; it is a way of thinking. I’m interested in creating spaces where people can gather, take agency and feel that the work belongs to them. With An Expanded Baroque Crown, the idea is to create a social plaza inside the Cathedral—a place that can be activated by many different people, voices and forms of collective life.”