The City of West Hollywood Presents the Next Exhibitions in the 'Moving Image Media Art' Program

The City of West Hollywood announces the debuts of the next exhibitions in the Moving Image Media Art (MIMA) program. Artworks by artists Alexandre Arrechea, Kordae Henry, Sarah Cwynar, Da'Shaunae Marisa, Jessica Wimbley, Richard Mapes, Pix3lface, and Shoji Yamasaki will display at the top of every hour on various digital billboards on Sunset Boulevard from Sunday, February 1, 2026 through Sunday, May 31, 2026. Biographical information for each of the artists can be found at go.weho.org/mima.

Sunset Garden by artist Alexandre Arrechea examines architectural forms to uncover the choices, values, and tensions that shape our built environments, encouraging audiences to think differently about how these spaces influence everyday life. Through 3D-rendered bee and mask sculptures, the artwork explores the connection between space, community, and society. The work draws inspiration from the history of the Sunset Strip, the artist's roots in Havana, and the gardens of Monsieur Balmain's Villa and Olivier Rousteing's immersive virtual reality designs. The artwork can be seen at the top of every hour on the digital billboard at 8497 Sunset Boulevard (The Now).

Animalation by artist Kordae Henry is part of a larger project focused on ancestral storytelling and imagined futures. The video shows a close-up of dancing feet wearing white shoes and white pants, set against a black background. The movement feels familiar, as if we almost recognize the dance step, but it remains just out of reach. The dancer's body is mostly hidden, with the frame focused only on the feet, making the figure anonymous. What stands out is the gentle rhythm and sway of the dance, slowed down to draw our attention to each movement. The work invites viewers to think about presence and absence, and to consider who this dancer might represent and what stories these feet may be carrying. Presented every 20 minutes on the digital billboard at 8501 Sunset Boulevard (Sun Cienega).

Scroll 2 by artist Sarah Cwynar is a sometimes lingering, sometimes frenetic meditation on the archive and how images shift, accumulate, endure, and change in meaning and value as they age. Working in photographic, digital, and real space, the artist combines existing images from art history and her personal archive to remix and re-present familiar visual ideas. The vertical movement of this video recalls a twentieth century research tool, the microfiche, which allowed the user to peer into historic documents by scrolling up and down. Here, on a gigantic screen, controlled by an unseen hand, that scroll becomes architectural in scale, prompting us to reflect on how visual culture defines and defies us. The artwork can be seen at the top of the hour and at :30 minutes past the hour on the digital billboard at 8730 Sunset Boulevard (The Whorl).

In Dandelion Dreams: To Plant a Seed by Da'Shaunae Marisa, six costumed figures embodying flowers journey through the fleeting beauty and cyclical nature of life, their petals and seeds carried by the wind as symbols of memory, renewal, and transformation. Through this work, the artist invites reflection on impermanence, collective progress, and the interconnectedness of all beings. Rooted in storytelling and play, the artist's practice is dedicated to healing, addressing marginalization, ancestral trauma, and the silencing of people of color, while celebrating the beauty, resilience, and complexity of Black life as a bridge between past struggles and future freedom. Presented at the top and at :30 minutes past the hour on the digital billboard at 8743 Sunset Boulevard (Invisible Frame).

The True Story of Edges: Sunset Boulevard by artist Jessica Wimbley features a video collage of visual imagery within the artist's afro and braided hair. Edges, a play on the African American vernacular for the fine hairs along the hairline, uses hair as a mutable space of memory and storytelling. Videos from sources like the Prelinger Archive that address the history of Sunset Boulevard are mixed with contemporary found and created imagery, nature, and space. Connecting historic content created by people who have lived or visited the area, Sunset Boulevard directly reflects the history of the folks in the community fostering a discussion that includes elements of intersectionality and inclusion, cultural history and memory. The video is a new iteration of her Edges series designed specifically to address the vertical dimensions of the billboard. The artwork can be seen at the top and at :30 minutes past the hour on the digital billboard at 8775 Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Spectacular).

Lucid Dream, by artist Richard Mapes, explores how different ways of being in the world stage the stories we live every day, the stories we fear may become real, and the dreams we hope to someday achieve. In the fictional world of Lucid Dream, humans are gone, and we're not entirely sure where they went. The global AI that they left behind, tasked with making room for them in the world, was originally trained on infrastructure data sets. But when a maintenance robot tripped over a data cable, and accidentally replaced it with the wrong one, the global intelligence became infected with models trained on fairytales in turn creating a post-anthropocene, and the dawn of the AI-thropocene. AI was not used to generate animated sequences or 3D design for this work. The artwork can be seen at the top of and at :30 minutes past the hour on the digital billboard at 8901 Sunset Boulevard (Whisky A Go Go).

Doom Scroll by Pix3lface is a pop-surrealist journey through human media and music television, from analog to algorithm, presented in hypnotic loops. The work unfolds like a hallucination of pop culture, blending familiar tropes, icons, and music-video language (evoking MTV's Liquid Television) through digital distortion until the line between creator and machine dissolves. The work rapidly explores elements from the fall of counterculture from the 1960s to modern day post-human perfectionism. Elements appear like service announcements promising unity, honesty, and transparency with bright, colorful explosions of collective joy. Entirely hand-crafted and hand-drawn from motion posters, the frame-by-frame animation and tactile patterns evoke the imperfect rhythm of Southern California's lowbrow art tradition, with no AI used in the creation of the artwork. The artwork can be seen at the top of and at :30 minutes past the hour on the digital billboard at 9015 Sunset Boulevard (Rainbow/Roxy).

Artist Shoji Yamasaki's split-screen compilation video, Littered Mvmnts in L.A., features litter moving in the wind, paired with the artist, dressed as that same piece of detritus, mimicking its movement. Each performance has taken place somewhere in the Los Angeles area, represented in 15-second spans. Across the screen scroll the words "Please pick up your trash" in English and "Pick up your things" in the local Indigenous Tongva language. Yamasaki utilizes the personification of carelessly tossed-out trash to address the relationship between human-made rubbish and the environment. Like the wind, the poetics of the dance uplift the discarded and bring it to our attention. Presented every 20 minutes on the digital billboard at 9157 Sunset Boulevard (Streamlined Arbor).

MIMA is an ongoing exhibition series of moving image media artworks on multiple digital billboards at various locations along Sunset Boulevard. The goals of the MIMA Program are to inspire conversation and enhance the human experience of the Sunset Strip.

The Moving Image Media Art Program (MIMA) is a City of West Hollywood exhibition series administered by the Arts Division, as part of its Art on the Outside Program, and is presented with the Sunset Arts and Advertising Program. MIMA offers artists the opportunity, and the funding, to present art that engages with the unique visual landscape of the Sunset Strip. Artists exhibited in the program are selected from the MIMA Prequalified List, a rolling, open-call for moving image media artists, curators, and non-profit arts organizations, with applications reviewed bi-annually by the City of West Hollywood's Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission, in May and November. The MIMA Prequalified List includes a diverse list of artists of all career levels; from emerging to internationally recognized.

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