Bakehouse is excited to host an artist talk with twin sisters Johanna Mirabel and Esther Mirabel as part of our ongoing partnership with Villa Albertine. Working at the intersection of painting, sculpture, and architecture, the Mirabels create hybrid installations that explore how memory—individual and collective—inhabits space. Their practice draws on ideas like the “memory palace” and non-linear remembrance, weaving together psychogeography, spirituality, and the lived traces of places that are traversed, transformed, or vanished.

During their residency in Miami, they’re researching the city’s “invisible landscapes” through carnivals, parades, and diasporic celebrations—thinking of events like Calle Ocho, Coconut Grove Carnival, and Haitian and Cuban festivities as living “memory nodes.” The talk will offer a window into how their surveys, interviews, and sensory recordings become a visual atlas and sculptural works that reveal how bodies, rituals, and architecture continuously remake the city’s collective imagination.