


Death Valley Layered Concrete Bend (Photogram)
2021
Death Valley Layered Concrete Bend (Photogram) occupies the compelling territory between photography and sculpture, folding a C-print into a physical object that carries the weight, texture, and presence of the landscape it depicts. Created in 2021, the piece incorporates concrete alongside photographic material, producing a layered, bent form that reads simultaneously as image and built thing. Wilson's process demands exacting attention: the introduction of concrete into a photographic work is not decorative but structural, shaping how light, surface, and memory interact within a single object. The result is a work that cannot be reduced to either medium alone, hovering instead in a productive tension between the two. Wilson travels extensively through the American West, Hawaii, and Iceland, collecting images of geological formations, desert horizons, and shifting light. Death Valley, with its compressed strata and extreme conditions, provides particularly resonant source material, a place where geological time is made visible and where the land seems to press back against human presence. By embedding that imagery within concrete and bending the print away from the flatness of the wall, Wilson enacts a kind of physical argument: the landscape is not simply a subject to be captured but a force that reshapes the containers we bring to it. Measuring 33 by 28.6 by 4.4 centimetres, this is an intimate work with a density of meaning that exceeds its modest scale. As a unique object, it exists outside any edition, and its current availability through the MOCA Cleveland Benefit Auction connects its acquisition directly to institutional support for contemporary art. The work ships from New York.
- Medium
- Unique C-print, concrete
- Overall
- Spotted At
- Gallery · MOCA Cleveland Benefit Auction
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