De Profundis Clamavi ad Astra is a 23-minute immersive video installation premiering at Locust Projects, Miami, during Miami Art Week, December 2026. The work transforms 2,800 square feet into a subterranean world of bodies suspended between descent and ascent — between the weight of collective history and myth, and the possibility of transformation.
Rendered across a 170-foot curvilinear screen through 12-channel 4K projection and spatialized sound, the installation places viewers inside the Uku Pacha — the underworld of Andean cosmovision — where hundreds of figures float, drift, and resist dissolution, and Kay Pacha — the celestial realm — where transmutation and ascention occurs. The technology is a vessel. The experience is slow, bodily, and irreversible.
The work is the second chapter of The Mare Magnvm Cosmology, a non-linear trilogy by Ecuadorian-born, Miami-based artist Edison Peñafiel examining migration, collective memory, and transformation through Andean cosmovision, Gnosticism, and Hermeticism. These are not research frameworks — they are the structure of the work itself.
De Profundis is commissioned by Locust Projects with production by MAD Arts and supported by the VIA Art Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and Funding Arts Network. Following its Miami premiere, the work will tour to the Orlando Museum of Art in 2028.
The institutional partnerships are confirmed. The production is underway. The gap between what is secured and what the work requires is what private support closes — and what your name, at every giving level, travels with.
The work opens in December 2026. You are being invited before it does.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Edison Peñafiel (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1985) is a Miami-based interdisciplinary artist working in large-scale immersive installation, textile, video, and performance. He is a recipient of the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art and the Premio ARCO Comunidad de Madrid, and has received grants from the VIA Art Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, South Arts, and the State of Florida. His work is held in the collection of The Ringling Museum of Art and CA2M (Madrid). He is represented by Fredric Snitzer Gallery (Miami) and Sabrina Amrani Gallery (Madrid).
Learn More: http://edisonpenafiel.com