As part of desert x international contemporary art exhibition, 19 new installations were exhibited in the California desert. The second edition of the exhibition, which took place from February 9 to April 21, 2019, is free and open to the public, with the aim of "activating the desert landscape through the creation of the most renowned international contemporary artists today, with the construction of special installations and performances in 19 venues". Amanda Hunt and Matthew Schum, co-curators of this exhibition, hope to explore site specificity, post-industrial art construction, and its interactive possibilities. The 2019 exhibition includes film projects and "process-driven" works that span 50 miles of coachella valley and into Mexico.
"It is an honor to participate in the Desert x exhibition project and to see her grow, thanks to the addition of co-curators Amanda Hunt and Matthew Schum; the scale of the exhibition extends south to salton sea and into Mexico; it further explores a variety of ecological, environmental and social issues to find the role we should play in today's world."
—Artistic Director Neville Wakefield
Below is our collection of installations for the 2019 Desert x exhibition.
Come find me in the clouds
armando lerma
Long-eared hare, cottontail rabbit & desert soul
rosemary face
mosquito net
cecilia bengolea
Wormholes
cinthia marcelle
Horse reins
eric n. mack
Capture memories in the black arc
gary simmons
A stand-in, a film about something old, one that appears sequentially, by oneself or by others, to reach out to something bigger, darker, more distinctive
iman issa
point of view
Ivan Argote
Flag of the West
john gerrard
Aimless #1
julian hoeber
Execute variable #1
Ghost palms
kathleen ryan
Peace is the only refuge
mary kelly
revolution
nancy baker cahill
The magnitude of the error
Lover's rainbow
Pia Camil
It exists in all its forms
postcommodity
phantom
sterling ruby
Observation deck of Terminal Lake
steve badgett and chris taylor
Dive
superflex