PRESS RELEASE

Primary is proud to present that which frightens us, introducing new work from David Correa, Genesis Moreno, Richard Moreno, and Luna Palazzolo-Daboul. Opening Saturday, November 29, 2025, the exhibition coincides with Miami Art Week and will remain on view through January 17, 2026.

Nestled within an underground parking garage in Little Havana, amid a warren of studios and the exhibition space aptly named Tunnel, these four artists have helped shape a subterranean ecosystem where prayers meet elegies, and their collective intensity evokes historic moments when artists, working in dialogue, redefined what art could be. Through concrete, sound, image, and gesture, they reach toward the ineffable—not to resolve it, but to inhabit it, where the act of making becomes both a form of belief and a measure of faith.

In pursuit of "the all-different"—lo de todo diferente, our absolute Other, that cannot be reasoned or reconciled, the infinite qualitative distinction—we turn to Vilém Flusser as a lens. He suggests that the "unarticulated" could also mean "Nature, God, or the world"—in other words, that which perplexes us and therefore frightens us into thought, into the need to articulate, to philosophize. Within this tension—between what can be expressed and what resists articulation—a space is provided where one might surface, held within these works and their shared vulnerability.

Beneath it all, the human impulse to control hums like an engine: lust to perfect, desire to mechanize—where precision is its own undoing; the tighter the grip, the looser the grasp. What endures instead is the residue of touch—the tremor in the line, the hand's inevitable error—which reminds us that creation is not conquest, but correspondence.

With this awareness, Primary extends these voices outward, placing this energy in dialogue with a broader audience, carrying the charge of a moment still unfolding and presenting that which remains gloriously unsettled.

Opens November 29, 2025 at 5 PM.
Richard Moreno performance begins at 8:00 PM
Closes January 17, 2026


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David Correa (b. 1999 Miami, FL) is a contemporary artist based out of Miami. Having received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Correa’s work takes a multi-disciplinary approach to creating and presenting narrative. His work explores existentialism and post-humanism, depicting the efficiency of the human body as a system which can be modified and instrumentalized. Correa is represented by Queue Gallery and has shown work at galleries and institutions such as Voloshyn, the Miami Design District, and Untitled Art Fairs. He is also an alumni of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and currently in residence at Tunnel Projects.

Genesis Moreno (b. 1991, Illinois) is a Miami-based textile artist who turns quilting into a language of vulnerability and self expression. Working through a feminist lens, she stitches together themes of trauma, mental health, and obsessive care, transforming familiar fabrics into charged objects. Her quilts resist being seen only as comfort or ornament; instead, they ask the viewer to sit with discomfort, memory, and emotion. 

Genesis received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017 on a Merit Scholarship. Her recent exhibitions include “Everything Ends Eventually” at Latchkey Gallery in New York City and "#ItsSoTragic" at Touché Boutique in Miami. She has also participated in the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Residency in Woodstock, NY.

Richard Moreno (b. 1993 Miami, FL) received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017 and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019. He’s known for his large-scale sculptures and installations that blend elements of sound and light.  Moreno's artistic ethos draws inspiration from the natural world, weaving together an enchanting tapestry of spirituality and invention. Selected solo shows include “STASIS” at Tunnel Projects, Miami, FL (2025) and “Vampyric Energies” at Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL (2025) Selected group shows include "Everything Ends Eventually" at LatchKey Gallery, NYC, NY (2024), "Wild Ruins Wild Orientations Sculpture Park", San Antonio, TX (2023), and "Community" at Emerson Dorsch Gallery Miami, FL (2024). He’s participated in numerous residencies including, the Wassaic Project, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, the Elsewhere Museum, Ox-Bow, and Millay Colony. He was also a recipient of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grant in 2024, and the Artist Access Grant in 2025.

Luna Palazzolo-Daboul (b. 1991, Mar del Plata, Argentina) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Miami, Florida. A self-taught artist, she developed her practice through years of assisting other artists and working in conservation, shaping a language that moves between sculpture, installation, performance, and digital media.

Her solo exhibitions include Closer (Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, 2023), UBI SUNT (Edge Zones, Miami, 2021), Fantasy Life (Rice Hotel, Miami, 2025), and an early career retrospective at the Miami Design District curated by Karen Grimson. Selected group shows include Hikarie Hall (Tokyo), Zilberman Gallery (Miami), Piero Atchugarry Gallery (Miami), and Primary Projects (Miami).

She is the recipient of a Wavemaker Grant funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation, awards from the Broward Cultural Division, a Miami Individual Artist Grant, and the Oolite Live-In Residency. In 2025, Palazzolo-Daboul is a Season 7 Commissioner Artist and has presented work in curated exhibitions at Voloshyn, Green Space Miami, and KDR Miami.

Beyond her studio practice, she is the founder of Tunnel Projects, an artist-run space located in an underground plaza in Miami. Tunnel Projects provides studios, exhibitions, and community-driven programming.

Primary (Est. 2007) is a context and research-driven curatorial collective with an emphasis on public art. We thrive amongst the self-taught, working-class misfits, who explore the margins of a new Americana through pungent, human-focused narratives. Our program engages with the raw and uncanny, celebrating border voices, bootleg culture, and intergenerational commentary, connecting the new and unseen with broader audiences and evolving collections.

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