May 1 - June 19, 2024

“... the past never a fixed and dormant landscape but one that is re-seen. Whether we want to or not, we are traveling in a spiral, we are creating something new from what is gone.”

- Ocean Vuong

“This sudden access to terrestrial madness illuminates his heart: he begins to think about the other Caribbean islands, their volcanoes, their earthquakes, their hurricanes.”

-Suzanne Césaire

In the current exhibition, wanders a never fixed nor dormant landscape, Adler Guerrier continues an exploration of landscapes, gardens, and verdant salons as places for interrogating the conditions for flourishing, prompting deeper reflection on awe, imagination,and cultivated hope that keeps us living.

Adler Guerrier lives and works in Miami, Florida. Recent exhibitions include Adler Guerrier: Wander and Errancies, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum; Des grains de poussière sur la mer, Friche la Belle de Mai; I drank words submerged in dreams (23rd Bienal de Arte Paiz), Guatemala. Guerrier’s works can be found in public collections including ICA Miami, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Walker Art Center, and Studio Museum in Harlem.

CHECKLIST (PDF)

Essay by Leslie M. Wilson, PhD (PDF)

Leslie M. Wilson is Academic Curator and Director of Research Programs at the Art Institute of Chicago. She is part of the curatorial team for David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive (2023) and was the curator of not all realisms: photography, Africa, and the long 1960s at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago (2022). She has recently written for publications including Ernest Cole: The True America, Jamel Shabazz: Albums, Dear Dave, FOAM Magazine, and Manual: a journal about art and its making, and interviewed Larry W. Cook for Weiss Berlin. From 2017-2021, she was an Assistant Professor of Art History at Purchase College, SUNY. And from 2019 to 2021, she held a curatorial fellowship at the Smart Museum. She was previously a Chester Dale Predoctoral Fellow at CASVA and received a PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago in 2017.