A much-loved Miami art space is coming back. Mitrani Art opens on 30 November in the Little River neighbourhood, giving photography, film and video a dedicated new home with exhibition galleries, a screening room and artists' studios. It is the next chapter for the Mitrani Warehouse, which sisters Dina and Rhonda Mitrani started in 2002 inside their family's longtime clothing factory in Wynwood, watching the area around them grow into a thriving arts district.

The opening show, ReExposures: The Magic Within, gathers lens-based work, including a video by Miami artist Antonia Wright. Suddenly We Jumped records a live performance from 2013 in which Wright leapt onto a pane of glass, shattering it and falling through to the floor below. Rhonda Mitrani describes the piece as powerful work that confronts social questions demanding change.

The sisters took different routes to the project. Dina, who has a photography background, worked at Christie's and at galleries, including one devoted to Latin American photography, before returning to Miami to open a photography gallery. Rhonda built a career in film production in New York and only came home to finish editing a documentary about her father returning to Cuba. At the warehouse they began modestly, with studios upstairs, before Dina opened her gallery and Rhonda launched the Screening Room, Miami's first space devoted to filmmakers and video artists.

The warehouse closed in 2017 as rising rents pushed artists and galleries out of Wynwood. Two years later the sisters bought a former mechanic's workshop in Little River and asked R&R Studios, the local practice run by Argentine artists Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt, to design the conversion. The pandemic and planning delays stretched the build to seven years. The new building will also house the Screening Room and Dina Mitrani Gallery, which have run as pop-ups since 2017, alongside a new non-profit running education programmes. Four studios, each large enough for two artists, are already filling up, with rents set at the lower end of local rates and grant funding sought to keep them there.