Unstable Ground: Landscape, Memory, and the Shifting Self – Group Exhibition
Unstable Ground: Landscape, Memory, and the Shifting Self – Group Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: June 16 – 27
Reception: June 26, 6p – 8p
Public Artist Talk: June 18, 7:30p – 8:30p
Open Hours: by appointment
Exhibition Statement:
Unstable Ground brings together four Dallas-based artists working through photography, installation, and material exploration to consider landscape as an unstable, layered, and ever-changing phenomenon. The works point to the landscape as a construct through memory, perception, and lived experience. Personal archives, sculptural works, and still images serve as ways of holding on to and questioning the landscape. Unstable Ground considers how we come to understand our constantly evolving environment as we ourselves change within it.
Included Artists:
Curator Bio:
Vahid Valikhani is a photographer and documentary filmmaker and serves as Director of the Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery at the University of Dallas.
His creative practice examines environmental and social conditions across both familiar and unfamiliar landscapes. Through the integration of landscape and portraiture, he explores how representations of place and people collectively construct meaning, illuminating the cultural and political forces that shape one another. He is the author of the monograph Nebraska, Tampa: The Return to the Streets (Tavaali Publication, 2025). His work has been exhibited internationally in Germany, Italy, Iran, and the United States.
Instagram: @_vahid_vv, @kimwassoneagan, @leallen_art, @jordan_nicole_funk