MATT BLACK NEW WORLD ATLAS – CALIFORNIA & NEVADA
2025-03-31New World Atlas is organized in a series of 17 chapters, one for each state lying west of the 100th meridian. This exhibition presents California & Nevada, the first two chapters of this larger body of work. In this series Black departs from conventional photographic representation and incorporates technologies that extend human perception. Thermal imaging makes the invisible visible, allowing viewers to witness heat as a signifier of change, from drought and fire to evaporation. Infrared photography distinguishes the living from the inert, exposing a shifting terrain beneath what once seemed immutable.
Opposite – Gold Butte, Nevada. 2024. Cactus., 2024
Exhibition runs through to June 27th, 2025
Robert Koch Gallery
49 Geary Street 5th Floor
San Francisco
CA 94108
