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CARDINALS
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Paglen asks questions around vision, perception, materiality, and aesthetics. His wide-ranging oeuvre includes work on artificial intelligence and computer vision, aerospace technology, secrecy and conspiracy, experimental landscapes, speculative fiction, nuclear histories, notional archaeology, psychological operations, and the Weird.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
As an artist whose work often explores surveillance, secrecy, conspiracy, and aerospace technology, Trevor Paglen has spent a lot of time looking at the sky. This collection of CARDINALS, the Air Force's unofficial code name for UFOs, has a surprisingly retro feel. The objects captured appear in the classic saucer shape, so much so they feel comically unreal, though the artist informs us that the images are un-doctored. The exhibition makes us question not only what we are looking at, but the nature of reality itself.
Mark Taylor
SF/Arts Curator
Altman Siegel features a robust schedule of exhibitions by important emerging and established artists, punctuated and deepened by historical exhibitions. Its program focuses on internationally recognized, museum-level artists whose work contributes to the cultural dialogue domestically and abroad.
Altman Siegel features a robust schedule of exhibitions by important emerging and established artists, punctuated and deepened by historical exhibitions. Its program focuses on internationally recognized, museum-level artists whose work contributes to the cultural dialogue domestically and abroad.