September 4th - 25th 

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Death by Landscape brings together nine artists working across painting, sculpture, and kinetic systems to consider nature not as an exterior realm, but as a condition already inseparable from the technological, industrial, and human systems that attempt to contain it. The exhibition approaches ecology after the presumed distinction between the natural and the artificial has begun to collapse: nature as sustained collapse, as entropic runaway, as something that exceeds every boundary imposed upon it.

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Preservation, extraction, contamination, extinction, infrastructure, and wilderness no longer occupy discrete territories; they have become mutually constitutive. The landscape is not a passive surface upon which these processes take place, but a record of their accumulation.

Rather than mourning the disappearance of some pristine nature that preceded human intervention, the works in the exhibition inhabit a post-natural ecology in which intervention has become an environmental condition. Ruin does not interrupt nature; it enters into its composition.

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Under contemporary conditions, a burning oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz becomes as natural as two dead stags, antlers locked together, buried in a waste of winter snow. Both belong to the landscape. Neither sits outside it. Nature persists not as purity or equilibrium, but as the unstable field in which catastrophe, adaptation, decay, and continuation become increasingly difficult to distinguish.

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“What generally passes for nature in the bourgeois context of delusion is merely the scar tissue of mutilation.” 

- Theodore Adorno 

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Featuring artists:

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Hope Barkov

Savannah Hodges

Fionn Kelly

Samantha Merrill

Zo Nicole Nielson

Lorenzo Osterheim

Jackie Pyles

Andrew Rutherdale 

Eva Tellier