Zine Machines

Started in 2021, EXILE’s broadside zine program aims to provide free zines distributed throughout Miami in retrofitted newspaper machines. Our goal is to promote local artists’ work and distribute these in an accessible way to our diverse community. Created in editions of 1000, each artist is selected by an independent curator and is awarded an honorarium.

#1 Beatriz Chachamovits
In the Company of Corals, 2021
In the Company of Corals is an informative look into the importance of corals and a quick guide on how we can help keep them and our oceans healthy. Beatriz is a Miami-based artist and marine activist whose work is centered around the celebration of corals but also the hard truths of climate change.

#2 VŨ
Slow Down, 2021
Artist VŨ encourages us to look at the world around us and is a reminder to breathe- "slow down."

#3 Edny Jean Joseph
Rebirth, 2022
Edny Jean Joseph's photo collage is a nod to meditation, rebirth, and the feeling of safety in the embryo or womb.

#4 Nick Mahshie
Barato, 2022
Mahshie’s work sources tropical ephemera from natural and manufactured surfaces to reflect the sentimental nature embedded in pattern, color, and clothing. Mahshie’s fluid use of fashion design, found objects and printed textiles coalesce to create installations, garments, and art objects that are grounded in the tropical landscape that has shaped his aesthetic sensibilities.

#5 Kevin Arrow
Four Lucky Amulets or Auspicious Symbols for Health, Happiness, Prosperity and Love, 2022
Retelling a dream is easy in practice and, in truth, impossible. Kevin Arrow described these works as “impossible objects”—in their varied iterations, the images resemble a hovering, shapeshifting figure that visited his room at night, in a dream, when he was a child. When he was still little, he enjoyed the simplicity and pleasure of cutting construction paper and arranging it into new forms—selecting colors intuitively, letting the paper determine the outlines. It’s a meditative process he revisits here, as an adult, remembering.

#6 Joyce Billet
Above the Ground, 2022
Artist Joyce Billet continues to explore the connection between the natural and the digital. Above the Ground broadsheet highlights some of the photographs, drawings and processes used to create her sculptures.

#7 Michelle Weinberg
Treading Water, 2022
Treading Water is the product of my drawing process using carbon transfer, a kind of pseudo-printing process. One side of the printed broadside shows the “positive” (the original drawing on paper), the other is the "negative” (composed of used carbon papers engraved with the layered residue of my drawing marks over time). The carbon paper marks are made visible only when illuminated or backlit. These works illustrate the collision of forces from the natural world acting on the fragile built environment, prompting erosion and disintegration. Letter forms are banal slogans and notes to self, fragmented broadcasts, set free from normal context.

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#1 Beatriz Chachamovits