Wasteland Wonderland

Summer, 2019

How three renegade curators are building an ethereal world of weirdness on the shores of a man-made lake in a scrappy pocket of the California desertJoséphine Wister Faure’s Levitation speaks to the paradoxical relationship between beauty and decay that characterizes the Salton Sea and the art created there.As the sun sweeps its western arc over the Salton Sea, toward the distant desert mountains, a prism appears on the cottony clouds, a rainbow rabbit hole in the sky. Just by looking up, we all...