The emerging artists at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach are a testament to the possibilities of contemporary practices to produce not only riveting art but also fascinating research in media ranging from metalwork to textiles to light installation. The following artists are just a few to look out for in the Positions sector of the fair.

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Elsewhere, a sculptural installation by Jesse Stecklow (b. 1993, United States), presented by Sweetwater (Berlin), has no trace of the human. Instead, it focuses on the intersecting flows of data, light, and time. A series of lightbulbs coated in beeswax will be installed along the bottom edge of the booth walls, partly an homage to Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Untitled (Go-Go Dancing Platform) (1991). A separate work located on the wall – a faceless sundial – will contain an air-sampling device, and the chemical contents of the air will be analyzed by a lab after the fair. On the floor, two sculptures integrate different aspects of these works for an intriguing coalescence of light and timekeeping.

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