I’ll stick my head into the dirt,
hoping to pull it out cleaner.
2025
February 26 – March 19
SITE 280 Gallery
Contributing Artists
Raine Kam Yung and Negin Mirfakhraee
Exhibition Statement as Preserved in the SUGS/SITE Archives:
“Who can afford a piece of land with only grass on it?
Lawns, aesthetic symbols of postwar
suburban America, signify prosperity,
conformity, and control. An inspection of
the gallery, an innately aesthetic space
with socioeconomic barriers to entry:
Who can afford a piece of land with only art on it?”
Programs
February 26, 4:00-6:00 PM
Site 280 Gallery
Home ground, making space and belonging
March 18, 4:00-6:00 PM
Program statement from the SUGs/SITE archive:
Please join us for a lecture with Nicholas Lowe in conjunction with the SITE Galleries exhibition I’ll stick my head into the dirt, hoping to pull it out cleaner. The lecture will be from 4-6 in 280 room 319.
Professor Nicholas Lowe will share his responses to the exhibition I’ll stick my head into the dirt, hoping to pull it out cleaner., thinking into its narrative detail and implied context. A turf covered gallery floor as a proxy for both cultivated and wild landscape becomes a meditative opportunity. Palimpsest like, a thin living layer, in the present, redolent of place and yet out of its place. The turf invites our engagement, a space for looking, listening, and sharing observations of landscape. Perhaps this green space is as much a place for remembering, for telling tales and visioning, for being together in our day-dreams to envisage a shared future?