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Title:	Cybele Lyle: Floating Seeds Make Deep Forms
Date:	8/24/2024 - 1/19/2025
Address:	Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7374 E 2nd St, Scottsdale, AZ 85251,
Location:	Scottsdale, AZ
Hours:	Wednesday, Friday - Sunday: 11:00am - 5:00pm / Thursday: 11:00am - 7:00pm
Cost/Cover:	free - $16
Web Page:	https://smoca.org/exhibition/floating-seeds-make-deep-forms/
Contact Info:	480-874-4666

Details:

Cybele Lyle is a contemporary artist who explores the relationships between public, private, and ecological spaces. Her first solo museum exhibition, Floating Seeds Make Deep Forms, is a site-specific installation that responds to deserts in the North American Southwest as non-places—liminal expanses for ambiguity within a regenerative ecosystem. Incorporating aspects of queer space, Lyle’s multidimensional collage of desert photography, prints, drawings, makeshift structures, and video projections create a fluid backdrop for discovery. The installation inverts interior and exterior, man-made and biological structures, to contemplate the impression we leave on our surrounding environments. Informed by her upbringing in a family of educators—her father was a landscape architect, and her mother was a biologist—that shared a passion for desert ecologies, Lyle’s practice explores the correlation between architecture and nature through her perspective as a queer woman in order to accommodate that which exists outside of binary categorization. While architecture aims to define space, Lyle’s notion of architecture is non-limiting and responsive to the constantly evolving nature of identity and environment. The artist’s site-specific installation invites visitors to engage with the desert as a site of transformative potential.