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Juvana Soliven, Roland Longstreet, and Pier Fichefeux
Curated by Jon Santos of Ontopo
NADA Miami, 1400 North Miami Avenue
Booth D203

Ontopo is proud to present a  selection of works by three Hawaii-based artists: Juvana Soliven, Roland Longstreet, and Pier Fichefeux. This grouping invites a rethinking of identity not as an endpoint, but as a process — one that intersects with material experimentation, bodily gestures, and figurative representation. The artists’ practices resist reductive labels, instead exploring subtler dialogues between form, memory, and imagination.

Juvana Soliven’s sculptural practice subverts and reimagines object languages to address issues of intimacy, labor, grief, bodily autonomy, and women’s roles within patriarchal systems. Her works balance intimacy and physicality, evoking memory and touch with profound emotional resonance. 

In his vividly colorful Presence series, Roland Longstreet explores the sensation of human presence as something that exists beyond the physical. These luminous abstractions defy conventional boundaries of identity, instead gesturing toward the shared yet ineffable essence of human connection. Through their dynamic simplicity and radiant energy, Longstreet’s works articulate a collective experience that is both intimate and universal.

Pier Fichefeux’s wall-mounted waxed hydrocal works emerge from his time on Hawai‘i Island, exploring the process of establishing a personal connection to place through storytelling and myth. Using the alien as a metaphor for otherness, these works reflect on humanity’s relationship with the cosmos and the natural world, inviting contemplation of belonging and connection in a space shaped by layered cultural histories.

The works of these three artists, while distinct, come together to propose a vision of art as a site of negotiation — between the personal and the universal, the intimate and the collective. Their practices reflect the transformative power of the figurative to shape, complicate, and expand our understanding of identity.

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