Curated by Carissa Barnard, FotoFocus Director of Curatorial Strategy

FotoFocus and Weston Art Gallery present Liz Roberts: Post Blonde at CampSITE Sculpture Park. This new site-specific commission presents an uninhabited drive-in tableau in which the automobile is parked and repeatedly disembodied to form a large movie screen made from salvaged windshields. While challenging typical road movie tropes, the installation simultaneously references the resurgence of drive-ins during the pandemic and the collective viewing experience of movie screenings.

Representing the individual and their relationship to a community, the car is in direct dialogue with the multi-screen projection structure. The 4-channel video projections within the vehicle’s windows, along with the single-channel video on the screen, question the notion of an afterward and what it means to try and create a record through video documentation.

This interplay between the one and the many is represented by a montage of images captured by Roberts, coupled with archival film footage from the last 20 years. The dialogue of images speculate that we are on the precipice of something transformative. But what comes after—what is ‘post’ transformation? What is on the other side of the collapse of capitalism, cataclysmic climate change, institutionally perpetuated systems of exploitation, and how can this transformation be recorded?