![]() In addition, a reworked version of Wilson’s pre-existing AIR Lab installation contains plants and Medicines cultivated by Marika Alvarado, a Lipan Mescalero Apache Medicine Woman. A new multi-part installation for the Visual Arts Center envisions what an architecture of apocalypse might look like through structures built by its survivors. Wilson’s large-scale photographs of mining sites inside of and bordering the Navajo Nation between New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona visualize, with uncompromising attention, how the destruction of land ultimately leads to the destruction of ourselves and our communities. The works on view in AIR / Survey engage with the visual traditions of landscape representation and survey photography in the U.S. Through photography, installation, and performance, Wilson’s work addresses the balance required to maintain these lands, and the implications of our failure to do so. An attention to these harmful extractions, and to the relationships between humans and the nonhuman environment, defines the practice of Santa Fe-based artist Will Wilson (Diné/Navajo). ![]() From the mining of uranium, oil, and coal, to the rerouting of water sources to generate hydroelectric power for major cities in the U.S., these material dislocations disproportionately harm Native American peoples in the region. Large-scale resource extraction is a toxic and inescapable reality for those living in the southwestern United States. ![]()
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