What had appeared as dense black can be seen up close as a texture akin to local adobe earthen architectures, a physicality formed of and mirroring surrounding nature.Ĭampbell primarily works in Bangladesh for the Samdani Art Foundation and as chief curator of Dhaka Art Summit (DAS). An arch with a wedge cut through, Dyson considers the work in relation to ‘our bodies as bodies of water – the 99 per cent of our bodies that are of water, born in water, and carry a kind of liquidity around it,’ it is a piece inviting bodily exploration – the wedge cut-out not only offering a changeable landscape frame but a threshold for the visitor to cross, while steps lead up and over the arch. Dyson’s Liquid A Place, against hills overlooking the City of Palm Desert, is a matt-black graphic interjection. Two further sculptures, by Torkwase Dyson and Rana Begum, use colour and geometry within pieces to be experienced as well as gazed at. The geometric panels continuously dance as the sun passes, an anarchic version of Robert Smithson’s Mirror Displacements playfully conflating local pop and natural culture. Riffing on cowboy culture, the artist has harnessed Mechanical Bulls, the fairground machinery that replicates a rodeo bull, replacing the faux-animal with flat metallic squares which flicker in the sharp Californian sun. Mario García Torres’s work Searching for the Sky (While Maintaining Equilibrium) disrupts the natural environment through modernist interruption.
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