Hales is delighted to announce LJ Roberts inclusion in the Joshua Treenial 2023: Aterritorial, in Joshua Tree, CA through to 19 November 2023.
The artists in Aterritorial propose new ways of seeing, of challenging the many lines being drawn, and of reconnecting us to a greater arc of wholeness and fluidity beyond holding ground. By blurring the binary, acknowledging past histories and preserving hope, they offer aterritorial paths to new futures.
As a queer person growing up, traveling by car presented an escape from an environment that was inhospitable to difference for LJ Roberts. Today, travel as a gender non-conforming person presents both freedom and danger. Over the past decade, LJ has amassed an archive of images that depict queer objects, structures, text, and landscapes across the US and internationally. They look for queerness that is subtly gestured or quietly expressed, as well as overt queerness. A horizon is unreachable in perpetuity.
11 November - 19 November 2023
November 11, 2023
