Desire Lines

A look at three American cities, all of which have a complicated history of decline after once showing signs of growth and prosperity. Set among deteriorating relics of past industry, The Bluffs explores a fictional place of disparate architectural styles, seemingly caught between decay and resurrection.

New Canons presents Forever and Forever, a new site-specific video installation by artist Tommy Malekoff. The multi-channel work features footage the artist shot in the Everglades region of Southern Florida over the past two years. Focusing on an inhospitable terrain teeming with development, agriculture and tourism, Forever and Forever sidesteps the familiar, moralizing narrative of ecological decay, illuminating instead a more nuanced dynamic between man and nature. While at times ominous and visually foreboding, the work underscores this fraught duality in a frenetic and fragile exchange, capable of extreme beauty and decimation.