FRIDAY: Double opener at Gallery Diet

Martijn Hendriks 12 Glowing Men 2008 Single channel video

 Gallery Diet

174 N.W. 23rd St., Miami, 305-571-2288, Gallerydiet.com

Khamsa-izm, a show organized by artist Nicolas Lobo, is named for "the ancient hand-shaped amulet used to ward off the evil eye." The exhibition will feature work by Kenneth Tam, Alyse Emdur, Oliver Laric, Harun Farocki, Bill Daniel, Emmett Moore. Gean Moreno, Martijn Hendriks and Ernesto Oroza, all of whom have made work that addresses four questions: "What are the moral qualities of the hand? Does the eye have the ability to project good or evil? Can the powers of the hand be perpetuated through mechanical reproduction? If a machine can see, can it act as a surrogate, projecting negative feelings through its eye?" The exhibition will open 7-9 p.m. Nov. 30 in the Project Room and run through Dec. 31.

"The Working Day," a solo exhibition by Ohad Meromi

The Working Day is a solo exhibition in which Ohad Meromi, who typically uses architecture and figural elements in his work, is "revising this relationship between architecture/installation and the figurative, allowing for the figures to become the architecture, and so assigning them the role of creating that potential-filled ‘new place,’" the artist notes in a statement about his work. "Grouping a number of figurative works in the gallery space – each treated as a freestanding piece but thought of together as The Gravediggers – I seek to address issues of class and the distinctions made between the individual and the collective.” The show opens 7-9 p.m. Nov. 30 in Gallery Diet's main gallery and runs through Dec. 31. Extended Basel hours are 10 a.m to 7 p.m. Dec. 3 through 8.