Desert X is again for its fifth U.S. version, planting a collection of site-specific installations in Southern California’s Coachella Valley. Curated by Neville Wakefield and Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas, this 12 months’s exhibition options the work of 11 worldwide artists, every responding to the huge desert panorama, in a dwelling dialogue of artwork, land and deep time.
The 2025 iteration spotlights the area’s resilient spirit, seeking to the knowledge embedded within the timeless panorama as topic and focus. “Curated by the place it briefly inhabits, Desert X reveals the [landscape] as a canvas of actual and imagined histories, narrating tales of displacement, sovereignty and adaptation superimposed over seen testaments of time,” Garcia-Maestas famous in a current assertion.
Works on view discover themes of Indigenous futurism, design activism and rising applied sciences, as seen in standouts like Sanford Biggers’ towering set of sequin sculptures; a blooming, pyramidal intervention by Agnes Denes; and Sarah Meyoha’s large-scale, light-bending ribbon. Ancestral information and up to date visions collide on this exploration of house, embracing the company of nature via materials and elemental varieties.
“The land of Desert X is not the legendary and limitless expanses of the American West however has come to incorporate the consequences of our ever-growing human presence,” Wakefield added. “Artists proceed to be impressed by the concept of unadulterated nature however in its search, they’ve additionally come to acknowledge that that is an thought and that the realities of the world we reside in now are each extra advanced and contested.”
Desert X Coachella Valley is now on view till Could 11. Try the pageant’s web site for extra data on programming.
