There is no museum that could contain art made on a truly monumental scale. It needs space to breathe. In turn, man-made architectural and artistic interventions have an almost paradoxical ability to articulate a landscape of already stunning natural beauty. It is these elements that make Desert X a much-anticipated staple of the art world calendar that always promises panoramas verging on the sublime. The 2025 edition is no different.
Once again, a crop of 11 artists from across the globe have had their site-specific ideas installed amid the sprawling, breathtaking landscapes of California’s Coachella Valley, which range from dusty, arid deserts to regions of luscious, green oasis.
Artistic director Neville Wakefield is back for the fifth edition, this time partnering with co-curator Kaitlin Garcia Maestas, and both hope that the exhibition will prompt some pause for reflection on the myth of “unadulterated nature” and the future of our relationship with the environment. “The realities of the world we live in now are both more complex and contested,” said Wakefield. “Time, light, and space permeate every aspect of this work but so too does an urgency to find new sustainable approaches to living in an increasingly imperiled world.”
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