Magic Mountains, Magic Cities   Tia-Simone Gardner (Saint Paul, MN)

From Tia- Simone- “This work has grown out of conversations with my mother, about the place that she and I grew up in, Fairfield, Alabama, a model city for U.S. Steel Corporation. Fairfield, a city that lives at the Western border of Birmingham, Alabama, is and was an experiment, in spatial-racial-class separation and segregation. These divides were not obvious. The planners used nature — soil, earthen berm’s, treelines, and dead-end streets to scar the landscape. We lived inside the edges.”

Fulfillment Center, PT 1  Alexander Si (New York,NY)

From Alexander- In Fulfillment Center, Pt.1, New York-based artist Alexander Si investigates the delivery portion of Amazon’s production chain through performance, printmaking, sculptures, installation, and participatory social practice work. The exhibition unveils what and who’s really at stake in the e-commerce giant’s fulfillment and delivering process. Following the research of invisible labors in Si’s recent projects like “sweet green” and “170 FORSYTH”, Fulfillment Center., Pt.1 is the first iteration and the beginning of the artist’s fascination and investigation of Amazon.