Bonny Leibowitz - Out of Place

Bonny Leibowitz’s Out of Place operates as a shifting memory of landscapes continually altered by human intervention and environmental change. Through fragmented sculptures and photography, she explores the complex entanglements between culture and ecology.

Leibowitz’s consideration of nature in relation to the built environment draws from concepts of Post-Naturalism, a perspective that questions the objectification of nature as pristine and separate from humans. The installation addresses the displacement, destruction, and abandonment of the natural world, pointing to the tensions between environmental costs and conflicting human desires.

Leibowitz culls and gathers mangled metals and plastics from dumps, construction sites, and roadsides during travels across Texas. These remnants are combined with fallen tree parts and photography to form hybrid landscapes. Her photographs of landscapes affected by tornadoes, drought, and flooding are printed onto wall- sized paper. The images are collaged into three-dimensional structures and scenes that peel away from walls and collapse to the floor.

Severed from their origins, these elements are reassembled into unstable new configurations where distinctions between the natural and the manufactured, the past and the present, the physical and the representation, begin to collapse.

The work serves as fleeting, elegiac monuments to trees, water, land, and sky.

As ecosystems degrade and transform, so too do the narratives we construct about them. Out of Place functions as a facsimile, revealing nature as memory—unsettled and continually in flux. We are both the maker and the made, entrenched in the conditions we create.

This event is free.