LAS HERMANAS > PUBLIC ART FUND 2025
Between Tides
June 28 – August 24, 2025
Rockaway Beach, Queens
Sited on Rockaway Beach, Between Tides is a group exhibition featuring newly commissioned sculptural ping-pong tables by emerging and mid-career artists Moko Fukuyama, Ilana Harris-Babou, Las Hermanas Iglesias, Carlos H. Matos, Amalia Pica, and SUPERFLEX. Installed on the sand, the sculptures will be directly embedded in the waterfront landscape and accessible to beachgoers. The works will respond to Queens as one of the nation’s most demographically diverse regions and home to Rockaway Peninsula’s delicate ecosystems of numerous wildlife species.
Between Tides centers on community participation and celebrates ping-pong’s history. Originally a game for the elite in Victorian England, table tennis later served as a tool for diplomacy between the US and China, became an Olympic sport, and transformed into a leisure activity enjoyed by people of all backgrounds. Due to its accessibility, the game cuts across class, race, age, and gender divisions, bringing people together. Between Tides energizes ping-pong through the visions of artists exploring sculpture, public engagement, and ecology on a New York City beach.
Between Tides is curated by Public Art Fund Associate Curator of Public Practice Gabriela López Dena.
Between Tides
June 28 – August 24, 2025
Rockaway Beach, Queens
Sited on Rockaway Beach, Between Tides is a group exhibition featuring newly commissioned sculptural ping-pong tables by emerging and mid-career artists Moko Fukuyama, Ilana Harris-Babou, Las Hermanas Iglesias, Carlos H. Matos, Amalia Pica, and SUPERFLEX. Installed on the sand, the sculptures will be directly embedded in the waterfront landscape and accessible to beachgoers. The works will respond to Queens as one of the nation’s most demographically diverse regions and home to Rockaway Peninsula’s delicate ecosystems of numerous wildlife species.
Between Tides centers on community participation and celebrates ping-pong’s history. Originally a game for the elite in Victorian England, table tennis later served as a tool for diplomacy between the US and China, became an Olympic sport, and transformed into a leisure activity enjoyed by people of all backgrounds. Due to its accessibility, the game cuts across class, race, age, and gender divisions, bringing people together. Between Tides energizes ping-pong through the visions of artists exploring sculpture, public engagement, and ecology on a New York City beach.
Between Tides is curated by Public Art Fund Associate Curator of Public Practice Gabriela López Dena.
