New work by Angel Fernandez & Winter Rusiloski

Fernandez and Rusiloski have developed practices that spring from the mythological landscape of the West, grappling with border issues of immigration, movement, power and struggle. Although their work has always been hyperlocal, the themes and questions they pull forward are essential: What memory does the landscape hold? How do we move through it, what limits us? What gets erased? and What mark can we make on sites that are forgotten/abandoned/unseen? In September of 2025, they are bringing those methodologies to Alabama, to intervene on sites and contexts in the Deep South.

The stories we tell about places determine not only how we hold them, but what they can become. In an exhibition of all new work created during a residency at Troy University, Fernandez creates performative sculpture and video work exploring struggle and journey within the landscape. Rusiloski, with a practice grounded in landscape painting, collages fragments of photographs from their travels and integrates her surfaces back into the landscape. Both practices document the passage of time in the elements, grapple with affect and effect, and address all the narratives embedded underfoot.

This exhibition was curated by elizabet elliott, originated by Alabama Contemporary in partnership with Troy University.

Through a residency at Troy University, Winter and Angel have mounted a temporary public art installation in a vacant plot at 204 E Walnut St. This site activation is a preview of a culminating exhibition planned at the Huo Bao Zhu Gallery, International Arts Center in Troy, AL opening this September.

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Generous funding for this exhibition and related programming is provided by: