Mirage was part of Desert X art festival, an outdoor exhibition of art. 1225 Chainlink appears as a joyfully bright yellow mirage within a desert expanse, revealing scale and material only after a long walk from the. Note: Desert X 2017 is permanently closed. Mirage distills the recognisable and repetitious suburban home into the essence. This year’s Desert X, a biennial spread across California’s Coachella Valley, adds to those mythologies but seeks to do so in a way which doesn’t romanticise or patronise. Utilizing the form of a ranch-style suburban American house, the sculpture is. For more information please visit: Īdditional generous support provided by 303 Gallery. MIRAGE is a site-specific installation set in the Southern California desert. Desert X installation view of Ghada Amer, Women’s Qualities. As Mirage pulls the landscape in and reflects it back out, this classic one-story suburban house becomes a framing device, a perceptual echo-chamber endlessly bouncing between the dream of nature as pure uninhabited state and the pursuit of its conquest. ![]() With every available surface clad in mirror it both absorbs and reflects the landscape around in such ways that the exterior will seemingly disappear just as the interior draws the viewer into a never-ending kaleidoscope of light and reflection. The ranch-style structure suggests a latter-day architectural version of manifest destiny, a primary structure rendered by the artist without function service or texture. In the tradition of land-art as a reflection of the dreams and aspirations projected onto the America West, Mirage presents a continually changing encounter in which subject and object, inside and outside are in constant flux.
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