Art Review: Christie Serpentine's ambitious participatory art show “Nature vs. Nurture" at Revolt Gallery "The Desert Is the Sand," Christie Serpentine, 2025, green and clear glass, authentic pink morganite stone, sand. “Vigil (detail),” Christie Serpentine, 2025, interactive installation: performance piece/video, rope, aluminum planter box, sand, hand-dipped beeswax candles. “Greater Than or Equal to, But Never Less,” Christie Serpentine, 2025, found object antique scale, concrete rubble, pink glass frit. Installation view of the exhibition “Nature vs. Nurture” by Christie Serpentine at Revolt Gallery. "Paradigm Shift/Salt Spell," Christie Serpentine, 2025, mirrors, 1,250 pounds of salt, moon cycle projections, landscaping trim. Published February 16, 2025 - 8:00 a.m. Modified February 16, 2025 - 8:00 a.m. As featured on - Art Review: Christie Serpentine's ambitious participatory art show “Nature vs. Nurture" at Revolt Gallery TAOS — A pink glow beckons. Visitors remove their shoes and enter a spiral maze of salt and mirrors. In another room, some visitors kneel while others stick burning prayer candles into a sand-filled cattle trough. The mood is hallowed, if somewhat eerie. The materials — salt, sand, glass and fire — are elemental and raw. In a corner, heavy chains suspend an oversized pink glass tarot card — "The Lovers" — in what looks like a medieval torture device. Other cast glass objects — a snake and a pink apple — rest on pedestals. Videos of burning ropes and waning moons are projected on the walls. Everything is pink, white, gray or clear. collection_84993506-e994-11ef-94bb-57953b9b6838.html
As featured on - Art Review: Christie Serpentine's ambitious participatory art show “Nature vs. Nurture" at Revolt Gallery TAOS — A pink glow beckons. Visitors remove their shoes and enter a spiral maze of salt and mirrors. In another room, some visitors kneel while others stick burning prayer candles into a sand-filled cattle trough. The mood is hallowed, if somewhat eerie. The materials — salt, sand, glass and fire — are elemental and raw. In a corner, heavy chains suspend an oversized pink glass tarot card — "The Lovers" — in what looks like a medieval torture device. Other cast glass objects — a snake and a pink apple — rest on pedestals. Videos of burning ropes and waning moons are projected on the walls. Everything is pink, white, gray or clear.
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