Desert X 2019

March 6, 2019
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Cara Romero’s new photo-graphic series, Jackrabbit, Cottontail & Spirits of the Desert.

Desert X will open its second edition on February 9–April 21, 2019. Free and open to the public, the recurring international contemporary art exhibition is curated by returning Artistic Director Neville Wakefield and 2019 Co-Curators Amanda Hunt and Matthew Schum, and will activate the desert landscape through nineteen site-specific installations and performances by some of today’s most recognized international contemporary artists

Iván Argote, Steve Badgett & Chris Taylor, Nancy Baker Cahill, Cecilia Bengolea, Pia Camil, John Gerrard, Julian Hoeber, Jenny Holzer, Iman Issa, Mary Kelly, Armando Lerma, Eric N. Mack, Cinthia Marcelle, Postcommodity, Cara Romero, Sterling Ruby, Kathleen Ryan, Gary Simmons and Superflex.

The exhibition will explore ideas of site-specificity, the frame of post-institutional art and the interactive possibilities that attend it. Diversifying the range of media presented in 2017, Desert X2019 will add film projects and evolving, process-driven works to its presentation, which will span fifty miles across the Coachella Valley and beyond, expanding to the south to explore the ecological bellwether of the Salton Sea, and further across the border into Mexico.

Pia Camil, Lover’s Rainbow
Armando Lerma, Visit Us in the Shape of Clouds
Steve Badgett and Chris Taylor, Terminal Lake Exploration Platform
Cecilia Bengolea, Mosquito Net
Eric N. Mack, Halter
Iván Argote, A Point Of View
Postcommodity, It Exists in Many Forms
Sterling Ruby, Specter
John Gerrard, Western Flag
Mary Kelly, Peace is the Only Shelter
Superflex, Dive-In

WHAT: Desert X
WHEN: February 9–April 21, 2019
WHERE: Throughout Coachella Valley