EXHIBITION: On the Geography
On the Geography
LINAREJOS MORENO
Friday, January 10 – Saturday, February 22, 2025
Candela Gallery is kicking off 2025 with On the Geography– a feature exhibition by Madrid-based artist and educator Linarejos Moreno. The exhibition opens Friday, January 10th, and will remain on view through Saturday, February 22nd.
On the Geography is a poignant exploration of forgotten spaces that reimagines how we see and understand landscapes through a decolonized and gender-conscious lens. Blending photography with visual data, Moreno creates large-format works that juxtapose striking landscape photographs with meticulously formatted data tables, capturing both the physicality and complex social layers of a place.
Created between 2014 and 2019, On the Geography of Green emerged during Moreno’s time in the southern United States, where she was a Fulbright scholar conducting doctoral research on the interplay between ruin and capitalism. The subseries focuses on abandoned drive-in theaters across Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Moreno’s images are haunting yet grounded, each paired with precise geographic coordinates that tether the ephemeral to a concrete reality. Alongside the images, Moreno assembles datasets styled after the early colonial explorers—juxtaposing visuals with empirical data—Moreno critically examines the colonial and patriarchal narratives embedded in the Western tradition of landscape depiction.
In On the Geography of Green, Moreno transforms these decayed sites into spaces of inquiry, reframing them as powerful symbols for reconsidering history, power, and cultural narratives. Building off this, Moreno features two works from an accompanying series, On the Geography of the River, investigating the tension between natural and human histories. Her work intertwines staged photographic scenes of young scientists immersed in the landscape with detailed data on circular depressions found in the rocky riverbeds where they stand. The margins of each piece present scientific and historical analyses of these formations—erosion from flowing water or human intervention. Through this lens, Moreno contrasts two worldviews: one that frames nature as sacred and timeless and another that interprets the site through anthropocentric or posthumanist perspectives.
