Please join us for the opening reception of Counter Cartographies, the 2024 Headlands Graduate Fellow Exhibition, on Friday, July 12th from 5 to 7pm.

James Corner’s theory of mapping highlights the cartographic sensibility can be traced throughout the work of the 2024 Headlands Graduate Fellow cohort. This exhibition offers up the urban fabric in haunting and delightfully unfamiliar ways. As mappings, the artists’ work defies understandings of the city that would flatten its complexity or sidestep critique. As James Corner notes, cartographies are powerful because they open us up to new ways of thinking with places we think we know. This exhibition of counter cartographies resists ideological representations of the Bay Area as either a crop of data to harvest or an exploited wasteland. Instead, we are invited to be more present to a flux of “previously unseen or unimagined” realities.

Curated by Christian Gonzalez Ho.

Artists:

• Luka Vergoz, UC Davis

• Dance Doyle, CCA

• TZ Jiang, Mills College

• Leonard Reidelbach, SFSU

• Oleg Savunov, Stanford University

• Samuel Wildman, UC Berkeley