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The Land Between the Sea
July 23 - August 26, 2022

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ENGAGE Projects is pleased to present The Land Between the Sea, a group exhibition organized by guest curator Noah Hanna, featuring work by Juan Molina Hernández, M_m<M, SaraNoa Mark, and Farah Salem.

ENGAGE Projects is pleased to present The Land Between the Sea, a group exhibition organized by guest curator Noah Hanna, featuring the work of Juan Molina Hernández, M_m<M, SaraNoa Mark, and Farah Salem. Taking inspiration from Chicana theorist Gloria Anzaldúa, The Land Between the Sea references the experience of nepantla, a Nahuatl word for a space between two bodies of water or worlds, as well as a manifestation of personal, social, spiritual, and cultural ‘in between-ness.’ This exhibition explores the desert as a space in which history, geography, and identity exist in a state of perpetual transition.

Though the desert often evokes a particular geopolitical and environmental border zone, these artists instead consider how our personal labors within the landscape produce our roots, narratives, and identities, encouraging us to perceive the desert as a space that is both the product of human existence and in opposition to it.
​FULL PRESS RELEASE
EXHIBITION ESSAY WRITTEN BY NOAH HANNA
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M_M<M
Space Race UNCLASSIFIED: Freedom 7 to Artemis II [NASA: 1961 to Present]
silver halide print in artist’s frame, acrylic test tube of rare gypsum "white sand"

30 x 40 in 76.2 x 101.6 cm (unframed)
31 1/4 x 41 1/4 in 79.4 x 104.8 cm (framed)
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M_M<M
Space Race UNCLASSIFIED: (Astronaut) Ed Dwight

silver halide print in artist’s frame, vintage Kodak viewing filter kit
30 x 40 in 76.2 x 101.6 cm (unframed)
31 1/4 x 41 1/4 in 79.4 x 104.8 cm (framed)
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JUAN MOLINA HERNÁNDEZ
para no desaparecer: doble filo (not to disappear: double edge), 2022
found frame, glass shards, adhesive, archival inkjet print
10 x 8 1/2 x 1 1/2 in  25.4 x 21.6 x 3.8 cm each
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JUAN MOLINA HERNÁNDEZ
​guantes de luces (light gloves), 2022
the artist’s father’s work gloves, glass beads, rayon thread, sequins, the artist’s hair, thorns
7 3/4 x 6 1/2 in  19.7 x 16.5 cm
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JUAN MOLINA HERNÁNDEZ
​algo nuevo crece/muere (something new grows/dies), 2022
shirt with cactus thorns and the artist’s hair
35 x 22 in  88.9 x 55.9 cm
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SARANOA MARK
Counting Outloud
repetitive drops of liquid on limestone over a period of three years
ongoing
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FARAH SALEM
Caustic, 2018
duration: 9:36, Abaya Garment
​performance video still

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FARAH SALEM
Caustic Poem,
2018
from Invisibly Visible Poetry Collection
poetry by Farah Salem and Manisha A.R.
audio track duration 3:33
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FARAH SALEM
Temporary Deformations 10, 2020
inkjet print with digital renderings
30 x 20 in  76.2 x 50.8 cm
Edition of 10
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FARAH SALEM
Temporary Deformations 2
, 2020
inkjet print with digital renderings
30 x 20 in  76.2 x 50.8 cm
Edition of 10
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SARANOA MARK
​​Desiccation drawing, unknown hours, 2022
clay on glass
92 x 67 in  233.7 x 170.2 cm
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SARANOA MARK
​Elul, 2021
fired carved clay
22 x 12 in  55.9 x 30.5 cm
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