In Search of Lost Time: Daniel Fiorda’s Findings, solo show, will be presented by Edge Zones Center for Contemporary Art, May 6 – June 3, 2023. An expatriate of Argentina, and a resident of Miami for over 30 years, Fiorda gained stature as a visual artist for his sculptural works, which  in the last years has revolved around creating and finding memories in one way or another.  His views are those of a man who has lived through the accelerated revolution of technology imposed in our society in the 20th and 21st centuries. He has experienced the transition from the typewriter to the computers, from the desktop to the laptop, and from the dialing phone to cellular ones. Motivated to preserve some of these, he becomes an avid collector or an ‘archaeologist’ in some instances and compiles these objects from a bygone time. His pieces include fragments of typewriters, old cellular phones, keyboards, parts from computers, electronic boards, recorders, and chargers.   

Fiorda began working in this direction with the typewriters some years ago, and these became a sort of trademark for him. He dismembered and repurposed them, converting them into new objects with new functions, ultimately becoming artworks. This principle was extended to other objects such as phones, cameras, sewing machines, calculators, and CDs. 

Edge Zones is honored and thrilled to be hosting such an important and timely exhibition. In this exhibition, he brings once more the typewriters with cement. Fiorda is a collector of many things, conferring on it the value they once had for somebody specifically, and collectively for humanity, for what their creation and function once meant. He is looking at these discarded objects with nostalgia, with a sense of wonder, assimilating their design, marveling at their capacities, and reflecting on the fast consumerism that makes them obsolete and discards them excessively fast. Ultimately, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and that’s what Fiorda does: he brings out the inner beauty of these outmoded objects by re-contextualizing them and transforming them into artworks. 

Essay by Irina Leyva-Perez