Vielmetter Los Angeles is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Mario Joyce’s work He Hears Echoes (2024) into the collection of the Columbia Museum of Art, located in Columbia, South Carolina.

Acquired from Joyce’s recent exhibition Spirit, Spirit, with the gallery, the work is a monumental triptych that embodies the artist’s distinctive painting practice. In He Hears Echoes, Joyce imagines how family tales transform into lived experiences. A figure, reminiscent of a self-portrait, floats across the canvases, grounded by blackened earth and a bright yellow sky. His body is composed of collaged materials featuring psychedelic imagery from the 1960s and ’70s, reflecting the inner turmoil and confusion of that era, both socially and politically, which still resonates today. The use of embedded soil from Joyce’s family farm roots the work in a narrative of heritage, place, and remembrance.

Joyce’s work will be exhibited in the museum’s newly installed collection galleries in January of 2026 to celebrate the institution’s 75th anniversary.

In 2021, the FENIX Museum of Migration commissioned Hugo McCloud to create a large-scale panel artwork centered on migration.

The result, titled Dislocated Origins (2022-2024), is an impressive composition that spans over twenty-three feet. It reflects the artist’s ongoing exploration of the intersection between figuration and abstraction. The piece is created using McCloud’s distinctive technique that incorporates single-use plastic merchandise bags on the panel.

The FENIX Museum of Migration, located in the former Fenix warehouse in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is the first museum dedicated to global migration.

Opening on May 16, 2025, the museum’s inaugural exhibition, titled All Directions: Art That Moves You, will feature works by artists such as Francis Alÿs, Cornelia Parker, and Do Ho Suh. The exhibition will also debut a series of commissioned pieces by international artists, including McCloud’s Dislocated Origins.

Please find a link to a short video created by The Fenix Museum and Hugo McCloud, documenting the general process surrounding the creation of Dislocated Origins.