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  8. Its Extended Remnant
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Resonant Landscapes Sci-fi Narratives and Historical Echoes


September 7 - October 12, 2024
Ivester Contemporary 
Austin, Texas
                
Resonant Landscapes explores the intersection of historical narratives and speculative futures through layered visual storytelling. Aryel René Jackson reinterprets past video works and archival imagery, blending mixed-media panels, sculptural installations, and stop-motion animation. At the heart of the exhibition is a futuristic, automated meteorological system that evolves based on cultural data, continuously reshaping its perception of the world.

The exhibition at Ivester Contemporary was curated by Kevin Ivester and Assistant Director Savannah Diaz, featuring a video work that resulted from Jackson’s fall 2023 exhibition curated by Julie Le at The Contemporary Austin as part of the HOST series.

The installation unfolds with a video triptych, framed like airplane windows, depicting aerial views of lush, uninhabited landscapes—greenery, earth tones, and vibrant hues enveloping the viewer. As visitors move through the space, mixed-media panels and sculptures embedded with soil and pumice deepen the sensory experience.

Temporal Glimpses

2024
18x18x1.5 inches
Acrylic, Texas Topsoil, Sand,
Creole Accordionist Alphonse “Bois Sec” Ardoin,
Marjis Allen (Grandma), Flock, Archival print,
Cyanotype, Screenprint, Acrylic-based cement patch,
and varnish on panel.
Concurrents

2024
5x7x1.6 inches
Acrylic,  Mediums, Pumice, Texas Topsoil, Sand.
String Theory

2024
5x7x2 inches
Acrylic, Potting Soils, Texas Topsoil, Sand, Mediums.
Loops & Holes (Forecast)

2024
16x16x0.6 inches
Texas Topsoil, Acrylic, Photography 
on Fabric, bell hooks quote.
Palette Spectrum

2024
5x7x2 inches
Acrylic, Mediums, Texas Topsoil, 
Sand, Molding Paste.
We are skybound

2024
6x6x2 inches
WWII Tuskegee Pilot in front 
of parachute room (1945), Organza fabric, 
Acrylic, Texas Topsoil, Sand, and Varnish on panel.
Plausible, probable, possible, or preferred


2024
Acrylic, Mediums, Pumice, 
Potting Soils, Texas Topsoil, 
Archival prints, Fabric.
Learning to Soar

2024
5x7x1.6
Acrylic, Pumice, Sand, Potting Soil, 
Texas Topsoil, Cadets in ground school 
studying a radial aircraft engine 
(Air Force Historical Support Division, 1942).
Filling up with the overflow

2024
18x24x1.5 inches
Acrylic, Fabric leftovers, Photography on fabric, 
Chocolate Loam Soil, Sand, Gouache, and Varnish on panel.

Reflective and speculative, Jackson’s work encourages introspection rather than assertion. Black American and Creole histories take center stage, conveyed through images of care—figures playing music and tending to the land. The aerial perspectives create a sense of distance and connection, positioning the viewer within shifting environmental and cultural transformation narratives. Archival photographs of Tuskegee pilots merge with natural motifs, grounding speculative fiction within material history. Through the interplay of textures, media, and movement, Resonant Landscapes offers a dynamic meditation on memory, change, and the evolving relationship between past and future.
        

Press

Austin Chronicle Review by Cat McCarrey


Support


Curator Kevin  Ivester
Assistant Curator  Savannah Díaz
Documentation  Photography  Alex Boeschenstein
Fabrication  Blue Sivak,  Jay Roff-García
Installation  Sophia  Poitier