The Show - The Reef
Los Angeles
26 Feb - 1 Mar 2026
Miami, FL — Momentum Fine Art is pleased to announce its participation in The Show @ the Reef – Los Angeles, presenting a two-person exhibition featuring Sami Parkkinen and Persia Campbell. While distinct in approach, both practices examine how large-scale political, technological, and cultural forces are absorbed into everyday environments, shaping perception, behavior, and identity.
Persia Campbell — Liminal Spaces
Liminal Spaces presents a body of staged photographs that explore domestic interiors and transitional environments as sites where personal experience intersects with political reality. Working from the context of the U.S.–Mexico border, Campbell’s images examine how gender, violence, and power quietly inhabit everyday life through carefully constructed scenes and symbolic objects.
Rather than depicting overt conflict, Campbell focuses on moments of tension embedded in familiar spaces—living rooms, motels, and private interiors—where identity is negotiated under conditions of structural violence and media saturation. In Los Angeles, a city deeply shaped by migration, border narratives, and cultural hybridity, Liminal Spaces offers an intimate perspective on how borders function not only as geographic divisions, but as lived psychological conditions.
Sami Parkkinen — Auto Pilot
Auto Pilot is a collaborative project by Sami Parkkinen and researcher Frans Autio that examines the automobile as a defining system of contemporary life. Moving beyond its function as a mode of transportation, the series reflects on how car culture structures urban space, social behavior, and environmental impact, revealing the tensions embedded in ideas of mobility, progress, and control.
Parkkinen’s large-scale photographs balance visual precision with critical inquiry, presenting the automobile as both a symbol of freedom and a site of contradiction. In a city like Los Angeles—where automotive infrastructure has shaped both the urban landscape and cultural imagination—Auto Pilot resonates as a timely reflection on climate responsibility, technological dependency, and the invisible systems that organize daily life.
About the Artists:
Persia Campbell (born 1993, Ciudad Juárez) is a conceptual photographer whose work centers on the intimate experience of women living in border regions. Drawing from her background in cinematic production design, she constructs carefully staged interior environments where objects, color, and light carry personal and sociocultural meaning. Working from the U.S.–Mexico border, her practice explores identity, memory, and gender within domestic spaces shaped by political tension. Her work has been exhibited internationally and contributes a distinct feminist, border-based perspective to contemporary photography.
Sami Parkkinen (born 1974) works with photography and sculpture to examine human consciousness and the systems that shape contemporary life. His practice engages with technology, environmental impact, and social infrastructure, translating research-based inquiry into visually rigorous photographic works. His work has been exhibited internationally since 2009, including the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, London (2015), and Circulation(s) – Festival de la Jeune Photographie Européenne in Paris (2016). He has held solo exhibitions at the Finnish Museum of Photography (2010) and the National Museum of Finland (2021).
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