Miami Beach, along with the entire Florida coastline, began to change rapidly in the late 1970s. Along with social change, American photography was undergoing a significant break from the themes and aesthetics of humanistic documentary that had dominated until then.

The work of Miami Beach-based photographer Andy Sweet (1953-1982) bears witness to these changes, revealing the themes behind the tanned bodies in the "sun and joy capital of the world". Sweet's unique relationship with his surroundings is also revealed through the expressive use of colour photography. During the period of William Eggleston's or Stephen Shore's popularity, colour documentary photography was also established in the American photographic art field. The use of colour identifies the photographs with the real world, providing the viewer with a fragment of the moment, and brings them even closer to the everyday image. Sweet uses colour to emphasise the ordinary cultural signs conveyed by the objects in the frame, such as a bowling alley on the beach, the interior of a cabana, or adult film posters. These fragments of everyday life evoke a sense of anxiety and loneliness, often lost between the sun-drenched coastline and amusing or even comical situations.

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The exhibition design, inspired by beach wind breakers captured in Andy Sweet's pictures, creates a summerlike atmosphere, allowing the visitors to linger around, sunbathe, soak up the pastel Miami architecture colours, and invites everyone to be inspired by the diversity of our society and hope for a peaceful co-living, with specific focus on genocide survivors, LGTBQIA+ community, and the elderly.

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