Mehdi-Georges Lahlou - Always Looking at Palm Trees in Voloshyn gallery, Miami - 30.05 > 15.07.2026

Always Looking At Palm Trees – A Botanical Conversation marks the first U.S. presentation of this new body of work by Mehdi-Georges Lahlou and the artist’s debut in Miami. Drawing from The Conference of the Birds, the twelfth-century Sufi poem by Farid ud-Din Attar, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou transforms Attar’s gathering of birds into a gathering of palms, activating the palm tree as a potent figure through which histories of migration, colonialism, climate change, fantasy, and ecological precarity converge. Working across sculpture, installation, photography, drawing, and printmaking, the artist reimagines memory and history as mutable, living materials shaped by the urgencies of the present. In Miami – a city where native and imported palms coexist as symbols of paradise, leisure, and displacement – palms become living archives: silent witnesses to transformed landscapes, colonial afterlives, and uncertain futures.

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 30, 2026 | 6:00PM – 8:00PMDates: May 30, 2026 – July 15, 2026
Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday | 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Address: 802 NW 22nd Street, Miami, FL 33127