Cauleen Smith: Mines to Caves
Dec 15, 2023–Apr 7, 2024
Mines to Caves evolves out of the artist’s film program GIMME SHELTER CINEGLYPHS which premiered in September 2022 inside Aspen, Colorado’s Smuggler Mine, the oldest operating silver mine in the region. The exhibition gallery emulates Smuggler Mine’s darkened, cave-like interior, where Smith presents a reimagined edit of her animated cinematic hieroglyphs first projected on the mine walls. A featured experimental film reflects on Smith’s desire to return the mine to the mountain and to reorient towards an alternative relationship with the planet.
