Mc City, Rosell Meseguer

Mc City presents Miami as both a laboratory and a symptom of American capitalism. The artist approaches the city not as a postcard but as evidence: a fabric of materials, colors, and forms that promise community but deliver fragmentation. Following Koselleck, Modernity is measured by the disconnect between expectations and experience; here, the urban promise is frustrated by the incoherence of houses and blocks, in an aesthetic of competition and display where the façade prevails over common care and maintenance.

The project contrasts Miami with the European city to make visible the excess in contrast with what becomes invisible: the mechanisms of speculation, desire, and market supply. During 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2025, the artist compiles local archives from The Miami Herald, in dialogue with European newspapers, during residencies at Oolite Arts Miami and the WOPHA Congress. Headlines do more than inform; they locate: they map neighborhoods, establish hierarchies, and sediment numerical, visual, and conceptual layers.

The critique extends to the suburb as a model of false independence: isolated homes dependent on cars, private regulations, and binding infrastructures. Here, flaws do not “beautify” the ruin; they are symptoms of individualism and the erosion of community spirit. A European car crosses the city of Miami and Florida’s botany, wandering between luxury and marginality, center and periphery, fiction and reality.

As a mirror, the work warns how Europe replicates these logics: uniformity without shared fabric, capital accumulation, and superficial sheen. Mc City reflects on this drift and returns the city to us as a narrative of possible fictions and their political costs.