Smita Sen doesn’t perform in the gallery, which houses her new solo exhibition, “Embodied,” daily, but the space is infused with her movement. The show’s centerpiece is a circular raised platform covered with dried calendula flowers and adorned with a centrally placed silver bowl. The flowers are not evenly spread across the space—they contain peaks and valleys where the bare floor shows through. Before the exhibition opened, Sen performed here. She calls the marks an “ephemeral record” of her choreography.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA) is also showing three dance films by Sen (plus a video of her pre-opening performance), as well as her sculptures, drawings, prints and written works. “All these pieces are kind of the progression of my relationship to my body as it’s evolved and navigated injuries, illnesses, grief and caregiving,” Sen tells Observer. “As a dancer and someone who relied very heavily on my body for performances—a very virtuosic type of expression—the visual arts, performance practice and sculpture gave me a chance to........