Extending my road trip out of Los Angeles, via the Katsina collection at the Heard Museum and the Biosphere 2 project, I headed to Marfa, Texas, to see ‘Tierra Sangre Oro’ at Ballroom Marfa – an exhibition envisioned by Rafa Esparza, with collaborations and contributions from artists Carmen Argote, Nao Bustamante, Beatriz Cortez, Timo Fahler, Eamon Ore-Giron, and Star Montana. There is a strong Los Angeles connection here – having seen Rafa Esparza and Timo Fahler’s previous collaboration at Club Pro Los Angeles (Timo also runs BBQ LA), and earlier in this blog I mentioned having visited Carmen Argote’s concurrent exhibition in Los Angeles.
Whilst in Marfa I was fortunate enough to also catch the third of three stops on Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda’s North American tour – having missed them earlier in the week in Los Angeles – staged by Marfa Live Arts.
