A spokesperson says---
"...This season's Tent Series engages with cultural memory, technology, and what we owe to those who inherit what we leave behind... the three new large-scale murals invite viewers to consider archives as living, generative material rather than a fixed record."
"...Keliy Anderson-Staley's "Wilderness no longer at the edge of things draws" on decades of letters, drawings, and photographs documenting the off-grid Maine homestead where the artist was raised. The two-part installation pairs a collage of scanned archival materials— including her father's notes and a hand-drawn map of the property—with a projected video... tracing the cabin's history from its construction in the late 1970s to its destruction by fire in 2019."
"...Preston Gaines's Floral Modulo unfolds... as a triptych, with each field—Invocation, Altar / Passage, and Witness—connecting a... collection of references from album covers to spiritual traditions to memories, relationships, and experiences from the artist's life. On the surrounding lawn, three oxidized steel sculptures extend the work's floral pattern from the composition into three dimensions, connecting the façade and landscape in an installation that considers how images and their meanings are inherited, remembered, and reinterpreted over time."
"...Dario Robleto's Ancient Beacons Long for Notice... is a film still from his video work, which examines the Golden Record, humanity's curated self-portrait for potential extraterrestrial contact, against a newly rediscovered document — the earliest known audio recording of warfare from 1918. Robleto’s work raises questions about the ethical implications of preserving and omitting knowledge..."
"...Sharmistha Ray presents Entangled Portals, a vinyl installation spanning three windows... that evokes the visual language of stained glass. The work emerged from Ray's research in... a rare collection documenting UFO sightings, alien encounters, and unexplained aerial phenomena... Drawing on recurring symbols, geometric forms, and diagrams found throughout the archive, Entangled Portals also reflects Ray's long-standing interest in alienness and belonging. As a queer, nonbinary immigrant artist, Ray reframes the figure of "the alien" as a metaphor for inhabiting multiple worlds and identities at once — proposing mathematics, geometry, and pattern as a universal language capable of connecting across difference rather than marking distance from it..."
