February 8 – April 20, 2024
Mercedes Dorame’s exhibition, “Where Sky Touches Water” brings together a collection of new and recent work, combining photography and sculpture to explore the profound beauty of our natural world.
Dorame’s lens captures the vibrant tapestry of our Native ecology and its elusive peripheries, inviting reflection on the delicate balance between the familiar and what lies beyond.
Inspired by her field research on the Channel Islands, focusing on Pimugna (Catalina Island) and Limuw (Santa Cruz Island), the exhibition’s images and sculptural works consider the liminal spaces of our ecological environment as gateways and portals to consider alternate realms—unseen cultural histories, dimensions beyond our consciousness, concealed habitats. In this instance, darkness as a contemplative space evokes the ceremonial, guiding us through an expanse where the earthly and celestial intersect.
The exhibitions sculptural works serve as anchors, embodying physical inversions and thresholds into the unknown, while allowing for movement between realms.
Dorame invites us to find tranquility in these spaces that may not be easily understood; embracing the subtle borders beyond the familiar—where sky touches water.
For more information and related programming go to https://oxyarts.oxy.edu/exhibitions/mercedes-dorame-where-sky-touches-water
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