This exhibition is presented across three interconnected layers, where erratic fields—or natural forces and phenomena—overlap with human ecological intervention. Each project originates from a specific microhistory or location in the “Californias” (Baja California in Mexico and Southern California in the US), where the boundaries between nature and political territories intersect.

These projects include recent INSITE commissions—ongoing explorations shaped by sustained research in the local landscape and ecologies—and works realized over two decades ago when site-specificity and border geopolitics occupied different positions within artistic practice and imagination. Together, these artworks trace a narrative of environmental change, political urgency, and cultural imagination in the “Californias".

This exhibition brings together artists, collectives, investigators, and activists across multiple disciplines who challenge the division between nature and the human, from its political constitution. Through poetic and meditative, yet also speculative and fantastic encounters, the exhibited pieces work within the grief of the planet’s destruction to trace the distance between the natural world as an object of use and exploitation and its reconfiguration at the most profound level of ontology, granting nature sentience, will, and even spirit.

Curatorship: Alejandra Labastida Escalante and Lucía Sanromán Aranda