THE WEATHER BORROWS ITS TITLE FROM CHRISTINA SHARPE’S IN THE WAKE:ON BLACKNESS AND BEING, WHERE “THE WEATHER” NAMES THE TOTALITY OF ANTIBLACKNESS AS AN ONGOING ATMOSPHERIC, AND ECOLOGICAL CONDITION—PERVASIVE , INESCAPABLE , AND STRUCTURING DAILY LIFE. COMPOSED OF SCULPTURAL AND TELEVISUAL WORKS, THE EXHIBITION CONSIDERS WHAT IT MEANS TO KNOW, INHABIT, AND RE-IMAGINE “PLACE” AS A SUBALTERN SUBJECT WHOSE ONTOLOGICAL EXISTENCE IS BOTH DENIED AND DENIABLE VIA THE MACHINATIONS OF COLONIZATION AND ITS CONCOMITANT NORMATIVE BIOCENTRIC LOGICS.

STAGED IN A ROOFLESS, WINDOWLESS WAREHOUSE BUILDING OPEN DIRECTLY TO THE SKY, AND CENTERED AROUND A SCULPTURAL VESSEL THAT FUNCTIONS SIMULTANEOUSLY AS TRANSMITTER AND TRANSUBSTANTIATOR, THE WEATHER TREATS THE EXHIBITION VENUE ITSELF AS AN UNSTABLE, OCEANIC TERRAIN; A POETIC RECONSTRUCTION OF A LANDSCAPE THAT IS AT ONCE EXTERNALLY REPRESENTED AND INTERNALLY LIVED.

RATHER THAN OFFERING NARRATIVES OR STRATEGIES OF REPAIR OR RETURN, THE WEATHER EMBRACES EXPOSURE, RUINATION, ALIENATION, AND OPACITY AS STRATEGIES FOR REMAINING AND NAVIGATING WITHIN THE “ONGOING CATASTROPHE”, PARTICULARLY THE AFTERLIVES AND CONTINUED UNFOLDINGS OF SLAVERY AND PROPERTY, DISPOSSESSION, UNBELONGING, AND PLACELESSNESS. THE WORKS ENDURE THE ELEMENTS, AND DO NOT SEEK SHELTER OR HEALING, ASKING WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE WITHIN CONDITIONS THAT CANNOT BE EXITED OR TRANSCENDED, ONLY WEATHERED.




The Weather
AN MFA THESIS EXHIBITION
by Fen Root

March 9 - 28, 2026

OPENING RECEPTION: Mon. March 9th  |  6-8pm
PUBLIC LECTURE: Weds. March 25th  |  3pm @ ARTSLab
CLOSING RECEPTION:  Sat. March 28th  |  6-8pm


ABQ INT’L
1206 Broadway Blvd. SE
Albuquerque, NM