ANNA GARNER
INTERSECTION | LINEATION

March 8 - April 12

Comprised of three separate series, Intersection | Lineation was an exhibtion of the work of Mexico City-based artist, Anna Berenice Garner. The title of the exhibition is pulled from the field of geology and refers to the linear structures formed by the intersection of any two surfaces in a three-dimensional space, making reference to both the contextualization of images into diptychs and triptychs and to the play between flatness and space in her work.

In Intersection | Lineation, the artist has gathered works that, together, address the fiction of the image and the landscape as a flexible construct. She explores the role of the subject as it both inhabits the imaginary space of the photograph as well as the presence of the viewer and what it means to perceive and assemble nature from a distance (or via photographic mediation). The images depict fabricated mountainscapes and horizons built in the studio from wood, paper, plaster, and silicone; the forms and the materials used to align with methods of theatrical set design, playing with flatness and simple but malleable structures to create illusion and the perception of believability.

Constructed landscapes are combined with images of a body builder that render their musculature as its own landscape. The conditioning required to transform the body to a top physical state becomes a parallel to the manicuring of landscape, considering how spaces labeled as natural are often highly controlled and manipulated. Physical strength further enters the language of the work through a self portrait in which the artist lifts the same body builder; in this act, the language and visualization of power is questioned (how the landscape is a backdrop to validate domination). Yet power is also re-defined becoming fluid, collaborative, mutable, and most of all fictional and subject to changeable mythologies.

The work follows a queer tradition of metamorphic experimentation, rearranging accepted corporal and spatial logics to construct new subjectivities; intentionally looking at nature as a space that itself doesn’t follow heteronormative logic and is therefore more pliable to reconstruction. In the exhibition, the photographic image is approached as a means of both collecting and constructing fictions, combining sculpture into photography and photography into sculpture to build potential worlds in which the truth/un-truth of material, spatial, corporal and natural precedents are uncertain.


Born in New York (1982) and raised in San Diego, Anna currently lives in México City. One person exhibitions of her work have been presented at Lateral, Mexico City, MX (2024), Lighthouse Works, Fisher’s Island, NY (2022); ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA (2019); and Phoenix Center for the Arts, Phoenix, AZ (2015). Anna’s work has been included in thematic exhibitions at Guadalajara90210, Mexico City, MX (2022), Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY (2021), Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium (2019); The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (2019); and Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (2016). In 2015 she was a recipient of the Phoenix Art Museum’s Contemporary Forum Artist Grant and has participated in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014), Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (2016), and Art OMI (2019). Her work is held in the collections of The San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA), The Federal Reserve Board (Washington DC), The Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston, TX) and The National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington DC).

www.annaberenicegarner.com