Landed: Surveying New Geographies Opens at the Neuberger Museum of Art

The history of a tract of land shifts over time like tectonic plates, eras heaving up and pushing aside prior eras. Artists have always sought to document the landscape, to capture a vista as microcosm and metaphor for their world. Landed: Exploring New Geographies features artists using unconventional research methodologies and experimental media to contextualize the sociopolitical and cultural factors that determine the demarcation of land, its occupation, use, and succession.

The artists in Landed consider the layered histories below land and the soaring space above. They challenge our quotidian perception of landscape to include the overlooked, the covert, and the indiscernible. They are pioneering a cartography of engagement and activism, building a geography that encompasses environmental encroachment, the flow of refugees across borders, the points of access to resources and infrastructure, and the rights to ancestral grounds.

Artists in the exhibition include Lewis Baltz, Ingrid Burrington, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap Of Birds, Jan Henle, Louis Hock, Ekene Ijeoma and Hyperakt, Shimpei Takeda, Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry, and Georgi and Nina Tushev.

Generous support for Landed: Surveying New Geographies has been provided by Donna and Marvin Schwartz. Additional support has been provided by ArtsWestchester, with support from the Westchester County Government, the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, and the Purchase College Foundation.

Photo caption:

Ekene Ijeoma and Hyperakt

Ijeoma: American, born 1984 and Hyperakt: established 2001

The Refugee Project (2011 Syria), 2014-16

D3, HTML5, JavaScript, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

Courtesy of the artists

Image courtesy of the artists and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)