Fried Fruit Art Space announces new exhibition kicking off next month

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WWAY) — Fried Fruit Art Space is set to present artist Alejandro T. Acierto next month, for a new exhibition.

The exhibition is titled “open grounds for wholly indeterminate futures.”

Acierto’s work has been displayed all over the world, including in Cuba, Germany, and throughout the United States. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Digital Arts at Wayne State University.

The opening reception for the exhibition is set to take place Friday, Apr. 17, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. It will be held at the The Alley, within Wilmington’s Cargo District, located at 615 S. 16th Street.

The works in this exhibition emerge from an ongoing inquiry into landscape, displacement, and adaptation. Following the steady rise of rapid urban growth across Arizona’s metropolitan areas in the last several decades, the region’s vastly diverse natural habitats have increasingly been replaced by sprawling housing developments, expansive commercial warehousing facilities, and enormous tech campuses for international manufacturing and distribution.

Leaving an indelible mark upon the ecosystem of the Sonoran Desert alongside the longstanding effects of climate change in the region, the area’s natural wildlife has seen significant shifts that have altered their capacity to thrive amidst dwindling natural resources.

Simultaneously, residents across the city’s urban desert landscape have faced devastatingly harmful temperatures, an increasingly dangerous water crisis, and a significant shortage of affordable housing that makes living there particularly precarious, especially those facing housing insecurity. Noting these tensions, this body of work navigates how the conditions of a constantly shifting landscape anticipate more complicated stories of relation between humans, non-humans, and the environments they inhabit.

If you are unable to attend the opening the reception, the exhibition will be on display until May 22.