Exhibitions

This exhibition brings together four artists who explore nature, ancestral histories, memory, and healing. Engaging in lifestyles that forge connections to land, community, and the self, the artists in this exhibition use ceramics, steel, wood, film, and more-than-human life to consider reciprocal relationships with the environment. Connecting the spirits of living beings through their practices becomes a pathway towards cultural and ecological preservation.

In the wake of worsening climate catastrophes, such as the Eaton Fire, that damage the landscape and uproot communities, the exhibition reflects on bell hooks’ poem in Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place, Section I, which calls for collective listening as a way of understanding how to care for it. Together, the artists reveal how connection to the earth can become a means of restoration, reflection, and return.

The exhibition features works by Anais Franco, Francesca Lalanne, Maddy Inez, and Brie Ruais.

Image: Brie Ruais, Daughter, You Seem Foreign to Me (Still), 2023. 9:00-minute video projected with a circular mask. Courtesy of the artist.

Curated by Danielle A. Hill, Amory Exhibition Manager. Exhibition Support by Taylor Bythewood-Porter, Armory Director of Exhibitions, and Diamond Alexis Gabriel, Exhibitions Intern.

Lead support for all Armory programs comes from the Perenchio Foundation. Exhibition public programs are supported, in part, by California Community Foundation.