02:38USA: Giant art installations appear in Coachella Valley as Desert X returns to Palm Springs
The biennial outdoor exhibition 'Desert X' returned to the Coachella Valley on Saturday, with dozens of unique installations created by artists from Europe, North America and South Asia.
“We invite artists from all around the world to come and discover the Coachella Valley and propose new site-specific works in response to the landscape here and in response to the stories and in response to the communities out here,” said Jenny Gil, Executive Director of the event.
US artist Matt Johnson captured the attention of motorists on nearby Interstate 10, with his work, ‘Sleeping Figure’, a large-scale art installation which features stacks of shipping containers resembling a napping man.
"The shipping containers are essentially vessels of consumption. And humans are essentially the same thing. So, there's an analogous relationship between containers that move goods around the world and humans themselves,” the artist explained.
Mexico-based artist Paloma Contreras Lomas also turned heads with ‘Amar a Dios en Tierra de Indios, Es Oficio Maternal’, a Western-meets-sci-fi, audio-visual tour of a landscape featuring an old car covered with tangled limbs and desert plants.
Desert X is open until May 7 at multiple locations across the Coachella Valley.
02:38The biennial outdoor exhibition 'Desert X' returned to the Coachella Valley on Saturday, with dozens of unique installations created by artists from Europe, North America and South Asia.
“We invite artists from all around the world to come and discover the Coachella Valley and propose new site-specific works in response to the landscape here and in response to the stories and in response to the communities out here,” said Jenny Gil, Executive Director of the event.
US artist Matt Johnson captured the attention of motorists on nearby Interstate 10, with his work, ‘Sleeping Figure’, a large-scale art installation which features stacks of shipping containers resembling a napping man.
"The shipping containers are essentially vessels of consumption. And humans are essentially the same thing. So, there's an analogous relationship between containers that move goods around the world and humans themselves,” the artist explained.
Mexico-based artist Paloma Contreras Lomas also turned heads with ‘Amar a Dios en Tierra de Indios, Es Oficio Maternal’, a Western-meets-sci-fi, audio-visual tour of a landscape featuring an old car covered with tangled limbs and desert plants.
Desert X is open until May 7 at multiple locations across the Coachella Valley.