Luna Palazzolo-Daboul (b. 1991, Mar del Plata, Argentina) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Miami. A self-taught artist, Luna developed her artistic style through years of assisting artists and working in conservation,shaping her practice along the way.
Working primarily in sculpture and installation, Palazzolo’s practice also spans other media, including video performance, painting, and digital technology. She is drawn to industrial materials, creating labor-intensive works that also incorporate iterated and replicated objects carrying symbolic significance.
Influenced by the minimalist movements of the 1960s and 70s, South American folk culture, Beat Generation poets, and the philosophical works of Ernest Becker, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mark Twain, Luna’s work explores themes of morality, identity, faith and the human condition. Her style could be described as iconoclastic, exposing resistance and subtle irony as critiques of society.
Solo exhibitions include Closer (Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, 2023), UBI SUNT (Edge Zones Miami, FL, 2021) and Fantasy Life (Rice Hotel, Miami 2025). Selected group exhibitions at Hikarie Hall in Tokyo, Zilberman Gallery, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, and Primary Projects. Luna is also the recipient of a Wavemaker Grant funded by The Warhol Foundation, awards from the Broward Cultural Division, a Miami Individual Artist Grant and the Oolite live-in Residency. Additionally, some of her 2025 achievements include being a season 7 commissioner artist, curated exhibitions at Voloshyn, and KDR Miami.
Sundown
Wood, muslin, custom pixel-mapped LED fixtures, microcontroller unit. Site-specific installation.
Miami has always been a place where the surface tells one story and the undertow whispers another. The city’s facades, its pastel buildings, emerged from both hardship and imagination; the return after the riots, shaped by people who translated the colors of sea, sky, and sun into a language of architecture and atmosphere. It is this language of color, suspended between memory and invention, that inspires SUNDOWN.
The installation replicates the chromatic intensity of a Miami sunset and a sunrise within a contained environment, allowing the experience to unfold at any time of day. Constructed from wood, fabric and illuminated from beneath the surface like a large-scale lightbox.
The first iteration of SUNDOWN was conceived in 2021 but never left my studio. This new version is specific to Green Space Miami, responding both in format and dimension to the architecture of the site. On one side of the piece, the colors are coded to swatches drawn from the sunset, while the other side is tuned to the sunrise. The palette incorporates colors sourced from images by local artists David E. Olivera and Victoria Ravelo, extending the work into a conversation with their practices. The programming and technical realization of the light was conducted in collaboration with Sean Sullivan.
SUNDOWN becomes less a spectacle than a pause: a fragment of something familiar, offered in repetition. It asks what it means to capture an everyday occurrence and hold it still, or maybe it is simply an invitation to watch the sunset together.
