ELENA DAMIANI, XIMENA GARRIDO-LECCA AND ISHMAEL RANDALL-WEEKS: SIGNAL AND STRATA

An exhibition titled 'Signal and Strata' featuring Peruvian artists Elena Damiani, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, and Ishmael Randall-Weeks was presented at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts from February 5 to April 5, 2026. The show, examined in an accompanying essay by curator Madeline Murphy Turner, focuses on how the artists use materials like travertine, copper, and concrete to interrogate narratives of modernity, resource extraction, and the climate crisis.

The exhibition and essay matter for their critical, art-driven response to the contemporary neo-extractivist model and the climate emergency. By presenting a stratified, non-linear view of time and material, the artists' works challenge Western humanist and landscape traditions that have enabled ecological damage, offering a more relational framework for rethinking human and non-human interactions.