MUTABLE LAND
September 24 - October 31 2021, NARS Foundation, New York City
Mutable Land, featuring works by Fernando Andrade, Richard Armendariz, Joe Harjo, Mari Hernandez, Ethel Shipton, Jose Villalobos and Anne Wallace, explores “Texas” land: how humans change land and the people living on it, focusing on shifting borders, colonization, migration, militarization, gender and tradition.
The exhibition was situated in 1930s former military housing on Governor's Island, an island possessing a multi-national history as a military center stretching continuously back from the 1960s to its 17th century seizure from the Lenape by the Dutch West India Company.
Like Governors Island, South Texas carries storied, militarized histories featuring shifting casts of nations vying for control, waging war and redrawing lines on land regardless of people living on it.
Exhibited artists probe experiences of existence in such contested space, weaving together history and today, from the battle of the Alamo and forced Indigenous assimilation to contemporary migration experiences and queer life in border towns. They highlight the histories, spaces, and documents of the changes to control of the land itself, exploring profit and harm; They navigate the experience of movement across South Texas and the U.S.-Mexican border; they examine how existence on such contested land affects generational transformation and contemporary experiences of the people themselves.
View a full exhibition brochure and artwork list, and press in ArtNet and the San Antonio Current.
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