TREVOR PAGLEN – CARDINALS
2025-08-04This focused presentation will feature photographs of novel aerial phenomena captured by the artist in the American West over the last two decades.
Bringing together a selection of prints and polaroids, this show will explore the relationships between UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) sightings, Artificial Intelligence, and the rise of disinformation in today’s media environment—which has all but obliterated the notion of ‘truth.’ As Paglen has said, we live in “a historical moment wherein our relationships to text, images, information, and media are being entirely upended,” and UFOs, deployed by the US military and intelligence agencies as psychological instruments since the 1950s, “blur lines between perception, imagination, and ‘objective’ reality, whatever that may or may not be.”
Opposite – Near Lichau Creek (undated)
Exhibition runs through to August 15th, 2025
Pace Gallery
540 West 25th St
New York
NY 100223
