This ark-like installation by New York City-based artist Torkwase Dyson is a poetic meditation on water. "(Dyson) looks at how infrastructure tends to fail Brown and Black bodies," Desert X curator Diana Campbell told CNN, pointing to disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.
This ark-like installation by New York City-based artist Torkwase Dyson is a poetic meditation on water. "(Dyson) looks at how infrastructure tends to fail Brown and Black bodies," Desert X curator Diana Campbell told CNN, pointing to disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.
Lance Gerber
The British-Bangladeshi artist Rana Begum's installation is built from chain-link fences, an object she saw across landscapes from Los Angeles to Palm Springs in California. "I loved how this material appeared and disappeared during the journey depending on the direction of light," she told CNN.
The British-Bangladeshi artist Rana Begum's installation is built from chain-link fences, an object she saw across landscapes from Los Angeles to Palm Springs in California. "I loved how this material appeared and disappeared during the journey depending on the direction of light," she told CNN.
Lance Gerber
This sculpture of shipping containers gone awry by Los Angeles-based artist Matt Johnson recalls disasters of supply chain infrastructure, from derailed freight trains to the blocked Suez Canal. The overall shape is a nod to the reclining odalisques of art history, according to the exhibition.
This sculpture of shipping containers gone awry by Los Angeles-based artist Matt Johnson recalls disasters of supply chain infrastructure, from derailed freight trains to the blocked Suez Canal. The overall shape is a nod to the reclining odalisques of art history, according to the exhibition.
Lance Gerber
Los Angeles-based artist Lauren Bon filled a swimming pool with water from the Salton Sea, which formed in California from the Colorado River due to a breach in irrigation infrastructure. Over the pool, Bon installed a sculpture of a whale heart, telling CNN the river is the "heart" of "the veins and arteries of the networked cities that it supports."
Los Angeles-based artist Lauren Bon filled a swimming pool with water from the Salton Sea, which formed in California from the Colorado River due to a breach in irrigation infrastructure. Over the pool, Bon installed a sculpture of a whale heart, telling CNN the river is the "heart" of "the veins and arteries of the networked cities that it supports."
Lance Gerber
The London and Delhi collective Hylozoic/Desires produced a sound installation that blares an imaginary conspiracy theory about a magical grain of salt. "Salt is so expansive, from its role in the human body to its roles in mythology," Desert X curator Diana Campbell told CNN. "The word 'salary' comes from salt. Independence movements in India and other places come from salt. Salt is the most minute particle, but it has a monumental impact."
The London and Delhi collective Hylozoic/Desires produced a sound installation that blares an imaginary conspiracy theory about a magical grain of salt. "Salt is so expansive, from its role in the human body to its roles in mythology," Desert X curator Diana Campbell told CNN. "The word 'salary' comes from salt. Independence movements in India and other places come from salt. Salt is the most minute particle, but it has a monumental impact."
Lance Gerber
Mexico City- and Los Angeles-based artist Mario García Torres explores the tropes of macho cowboy culture through this herd of minimalist mechanical bulls, which echo the machine's movement and whose surfaces reflect the changing sky above. Torres is exploring "why our society celebrates failure," Campbell explained to CNN. "Because the person riding the bull is going to fall."
Mexico City- and Los Angeles-based artist Mario García Torres explores the tropes of macho cowboy culture through this herd of minimalist mechanical bulls, which echo the machine's movement and whose surfaces reflect the changing sky above. Torres is exploring "why our society celebrates failure," Campbell explained to CNN. "Because the person riding the bull is going to fall."
Lance Gerber
Mexico City-based artist Paloma Contreras Loma adorned this car with an absurdist scene of knit florals and cacti and the arms of a stuffed creature emerging from the trunk.
Mexico City-based artist Paloma Contreras Loma adorned this car with an absurdist scene of knit florals and cacti and the arms of a stuffed creature emerging from the trunk.
Lance Gerber
New York City-based artist Tschabalala Self created a sculpture meant to stand for all the forgotten Indigenous, Native and African women crucial to America's history. "This monument is in homage to our collective foremothers who birthed the nation we now share," Self told CNN. "It was a deeply personal process which involved me developing an icon that spoke to the power and fragility of the contemporary and historical female experience."
New York City-based artist Tschabalala Self created a sculpture meant to stand for all the forgotten Indigenous, Native and African women crucial to America's history. "This monument is in homage to our collective foremothers who birthed the nation we now share," Self told CNN. "It was a deeply personal process which involved me developing an icon that spoke to the power and fragility of the contemporary and historical female experience."
Lance Gerber
A still from a film by Dhaka-based architect Marina Tabassum, which shows her "Khudi Bari," a modular, inexpensive home that is quick to build in flash flood-prone areas.
A still from a film by Dhaka-based architect Marina Tabassum, which shows her "Khudi Bari," a modular, inexpensive home that is quick to build in flash flood-prone areas.
Marina Tabassum
This billboard series pays tribute to 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, who died in Memphis in January three days after police beat him during a traffic stop. Nichols was a photography enthusiast, and his images are shown at monumental sizes along the highway.
This billboard series pays tribute to 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, who died in Memphis in January three days after police beat him during a traffic stop. Nichols was a photography enthusiast, and his images are shown at monumental sizes along the highway.
Lance Gerber
Mexico City-based artist Héctor Zamora pays tribute to the street vendors around Coachella Valley by celebrating them with silver balloons, which visitors cam take home.
Mexico City-based artist Héctor Zamora pays tribute to the street vendors around Coachella Valley by celebrating them with silver balloons, which visitors cam take home.
Héctor Zamora
Indigenous artist, educator and tribal leader Gerald Clarke mixed traditional Cahuilla basket weaving with American board games to create a desert maze, which instructs visitors on how to move through it with a series of game cards.
Indigenous artist, educator and tribal leader Gerald Clarke mixed traditional Cahuilla basket weaving with American board games to create a desert maze, which instructs visitors on how to move through it with a series of game cards.
Lance Gerber