DESERT X, Coachella Valley,
California
performance view of Sarah Meyohas, Truth Arrives in Slanted Beams, ph.
Josh Rose, courtesy Desert X, the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery.
11 May concluded in
Coachella Valley, California, the fifth edition of Desert X, the international
art exhibition founded in 2017 by The Desert Biennial, with the aim of activating
desert locations through site-specific installations by acclaimed international
artists. In addition to the United States, the organisers
contributed to the Desert X AlUla exhibition in the Saudi Arabian desert.
Kimsooja, To Breathe – Coachella Valley
The
exhibition presented eleven installations by artists from Asia, Europe, the
Americas, and the Middle East, who provide us with alternative ways of looking
at a world increasingly encircled by the transformational effects of nature and
humanity.
Ronald Rael, Adobe Oasis
Adopting
both material, architectural forms and the elusive and the immaterial to delve
into ideas of temporality and nonlinear narratives of desert time, the works
invite us to glean wisdom from the desert’s vast knowledge.
Raphael Hefti, Five things you can’t wear on TV
Architecture,
the most visible evidence of our transformative presence, is the adopted form
of many of the projects – both pavilion-like and prosaic – while immateriality
and elusive forms of wind and light signal the transformative effects, not just
of humans, but of nature upon the landscape.
Sarah Meyohas,Truth Arrives in Slanted Beams
