The presented artists express understandings of the landscape that question the interrelationships between technologies of illusion and the act of inhabiting a site. The exhibition unfolds with interplay between the digital and the physical; visibility and invisibility; tourism and residency; and the historical and personal.

Andreas Angelidakis (Greek, born 1968) is an artist and architect working in Athens, Greece. Angelidakis’s practice addresses the ever-narrowing divide between the our experiences of digital and physical space. Included is his 2006 work Philosophy Table and Chairs, reproduced in Texas for outdoor display. The furniture set is based on a browser-based work by artist Japanese performance artist Mai Ueda. Angelidakis proposes that the shift of digitally-born images to the physical world are contemporary ruins.

Gabriel Cohen (American, born 1995) is an artist, author and curator living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Cohen’s sculptural works investigate the processes of myth-building particularly how it relates to materials and urban infrastructure. Here, he exhibits a pendlum-cum-radio tower. Constructed out of finished plywood, the tower’s function is inverted--acting as a receiver rather than a transmitter. The broadcast it receives and amplifies is a speech by American Footballer, Ray Guy in which he recounts a rambling anecdote of atmospheric conditions and their effects on his radio as a child. The sculpture is a waypoint where the two invisible forces of atmosphere and radio waves meet.

Julien Creuzet (French-Caribbean, born 1986) lives and works in Paris, France. Creuzet reconsiders the history of his native Caribbean by way of landscape. The narratives presented in his works bend space and time, inextricably linking disparate geographies through poetics. His work frequently references the landscape of the ocean⁠—its surface and its depths⁠—as the site of cultural trauma and erasure. Reflecting on the works of Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant his work blends fiction with investigations of regional and diasporic histories. Creuzet’s video is composed of seemingly infinite scrolling illustrations of feathers, rendered in a manner reminiscent of 18th Century European ethnography⁠—colonial mythology all the way down.

Ricardo Morales-Hernández (American, born 1984) lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Morales-Hernández exhibits his first architectural construction—a closed circle of blue construction tarps and a single canvas. In artist-made charcoal on both recto and verso, the canvas depicts imaginary landscapes which give a first impression of either text or musical notation—both references welcomed by the artist. His work addresses the touristic language enshrouding his native Puerto Rico, “tropical as paradisiacal,” as a semiotic technology. Produced in his outdoor studio, the canvas holds both the marks of the artist, as well as the direct interventions of the landscape itself. It survived two major hurricanes in 2017: Irma and Maria.

Letha Wilson (American, born 1976) is a conceptual artist working at the intersection of sculpture and photography. She is based between New York City and the Hudson Valley, NY. She contributes a temporary outdoor construction--a white, gallery wall physically intersecting two of the site’s resident trees. Frontally, the work appears as a white wall with the tree’s branches penetrating its surface. The siting of Wilson’s intervention attends not only to the flora’s interaction with her artificial construction, but to the light, the shadows cast throughout the day, suggesting a photographic, momentary interpretation of experience.