NOW ON VIEW – MCA Denver
Deborah Jack’s solo exhibition (her first in Colorado) includes a dynamic, six-channel video installation featuring tumbling waters and fauna from the shorelines of four geographically distant places: Maine, Louisiana, Brazil (Belém), and the island of St. Maarten. Entitled a sea desalts, creeping in the collapse… in the expanse…a rhizome looks for reason… whispers an elegy instead, 2024, this installation offers a meditation on the dynamic nature of coastlines and humanity’s relationship to water. Along the coastlines of Louisiana, Maine, and St. Maarten, land is rapidly disappearing and changing due to erosion, warming ocean waters, and hurricanes. Meanwhile, in Louisiana’s river delta, Neptune Pass and Quarantine Bay offer unexpected examples of where the land is naturally repairing itself. These shifting edges of where the water meets the land underscores the limitations of humans’ ability to control nature.