“Raised by Water, Held by Land”
@The Carter Project Miami
AIRIE Presents “Raised by Water, Held by Land” by Artist Ania Freer
for Miami Art Week 2025 in partnership with Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami, FL - November 18, 2025 - AIRIE, the South Florida-based non-profit organization that empowers artists to think critically and creates affirming spaces at the intersection of art and environment, will present a site-specific installation by artist and 2022 AIRIE Fellow Ania Freer at The Carter Project in Miami for Miami Art Week 2025 in partnership with Art Basel Miami Beach. The celebration also marks the start of the organization’s 25th anniversary, and will be followed by a year of highlighting the artists who have participated in the residency.
The installation for Miami Art Week, titled “Raised by Water, Held by Land,” is an immersive, multi-sensory installation inspired by the tree island sanctuaries of the Everglades—landforms shaped by water and held just above it. The three short films featuring oral histories from Daniel Tommie (Seminole Tribe of Florida), Dinizulu Gene Tinnie, and Dr. Wallis Tinnie, were created during artist Ania Freer’s 2022 AIRIE residency and subsequent visits to the Everglades. Originally part of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Triennial, this installation, which is curated by AIRIE Global Artistic Director Cornelius Tulloch, invites reflection on the fragility of the environments that sustain us, and the intersecting pressures—climate change, colonialism, and systemic imbalance—that continue to endanger them.
Says Freer, “During my AIRIE residency, I found myself drawn back to the same places—returning at different times of day to listen, to feel. Moving through the park, I felt cared for, as if a gentle, nurturing energy was watching over me. There was a deep sense of being held by the land. That feeling of safety, of reciprocity with the environment, became the foundation for this installation.”
The installation will open on December 1 with an invite-only event in partnership with Art Basel Miami Beach, and then be open to the public with preview on November 29 and run through December 2 from 10 - 5. To see the installation, the public is invited to sign up at https://thecarterprojectmiami.artsvp.com/c060e5
About Ania Freer
Ania Freer is an Australian-Jamaican artist, filmmaker, cultural researcher, and curator based in Kingston, Jamaica. She attended The University of Sydney and received a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Film Theory. Through installation and video portraiture, as well as her curatorial work, Freer addresses themes central to the Jamaican experience such as Black empowerment, resistance, feminism, environmental justice, and spirituality.
She is the founder of Goat Curry Gallery and the documentary filmmaker behind the video portraiture series REAL TALK. Ania has exhibited at the London CHROM International Art Festival (2017) and the National Gallery of Jamaica’s Summer Exhibition (2019). She curated her first group exhibition, ‘All That Don’t Leave’, during her Curatorial and Art Writing fellowship at New Local Space Kingston (2019), is an inaugural Fellow in the 2021 cohort of Caribbean Film Academy and the grant recipient of the New York Black Creative Endeavours Grant (2020) and the Filmed by Bike BIPOC Filmmaker Grant, Oregon (2021).
Exhibition images can be seen below. Installation at The Carter Project in Miami for Miami Art Week 2025 in partnership with Art Base Miami Beach.
Images courtesy of our creative agency @dharmacreativ.
