Point of Contact
2025
two-person show
framed archival pigment prints
two-person show
framed archival pigment prints
On view at Scalehouse Gallery, Bend, OR, January 3 - February 22, 2025.
Point of Contact is an exhibition of work by Agnese Cebere and Erin Langley. Through photography and sculpture, they explore themes of landscape and terrain, surface and depth.
Situated within the high desert landscapes regional to Bend, Cebere and Langley eschew romantic depictions of this familiar terrain and instead cast their gaze downward: at abandoned campsites, makeshift fire pits, and household refuse.
The exhibition includes photographs by Cebere, all part of the series Desert Shots, taken near Redmond, OR. These images are the product of an investigation of a liminal site of recreation that is also a site of illegal dumping of waste and detritus. Part forensic investigation, part aesthetic intervention, this work underscores the way nature and culture are intertwined in our everyday lives. Langley’s sculptures take as their starting point the notion of the consumer remnant— a cast-off object or material (a scrap of junkmail, a weathered piece of plastic) whose color, shape, or texture provokes an artistic response. The completed sculptures are de-idealized, pseudo-geologic forms that interrogate the perceived division between natural and synthetic, while nodding to the materials and structures in Cebere’s photos.
Point of Contact considers surface as both an entry point and final resting place. Through Langley’s active relation between herself and surrounding waste, the overlooked is leveraged to gain new purchase on a smooth, habitual world. Equally, Cebere employs artifice as a revealer of form. What has always been there shimmers anew.
Point of Contact is an exhibition of work by Agnese Cebere and Erin Langley. Through photography and sculpture, they explore themes of landscape and terrain, surface and depth.
Situated within the high desert landscapes regional to Bend, Cebere and Langley eschew romantic depictions of this familiar terrain and instead cast their gaze downward: at abandoned campsites, makeshift fire pits, and household refuse.
The exhibition includes photographs by Cebere, all part of the series Desert Shots, taken near Redmond, OR. These images are the product of an investigation of a liminal site of recreation that is also a site of illegal dumping of waste and detritus. Part forensic investigation, part aesthetic intervention, this work underscores the way nature and culture are intertwined in our everyday lives. Langley’s sculptures take as their starting point the notion of the consumer remnant— a cast-off object or material (a scrap of junkmail, a weathered piece of plastic) whose color, shape, or texture provokes an artistic response. The completed sculptures are de-idealized, pseudo-geologic forms that interrogate the perceived division between natural and synthetic, while nodding to the materials and structures in Cebere’s photos.
Point of Contact considers surface as both an entry point and final resting place. Through Langley’s active relation between herself and surrounding waste, the overlooked is leveraged to gain new purchase on a smooth, habitual world. Equally, Cebere employs artifice as a revealer of form. What has always been there shimmers anew.
