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Desert X 2023
- VIEWING HOURS: 8:30 am to 4 pm, Wednesday through Sunday
- CLOSED MONDAYS & TUESDAYS
- NO PETS, SMOKING, OR VAPING
- FREE ADMISSION
- LOCATION: Sunnylands Center & Gardens, 37977 Bob Hope Drive, Rancho Mirage.
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Explore Desert X 2023 at Sunnylands Center & Gardens. This year’s artwork is “Amar a Dios en Tierra de Indios, Es Oficio Maternal” by Paloma Contreras Lomas.
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In 2021, Ghada Amer brought her distinctive planted artwork, “Women’s Qualities,” to the Great Lawn at Sunnylands.
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In 2019, Iman Issa presented “Surrogates, a film about things to be used, in order of appearance, by self or others, for touching upon larger, insidious, or different things.”
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And in 2017, Lita Albuquerque transformed the Performance Circle into a mysterious white disc for a presentation of “hEARTH.”
About Paloma Contreras Lomas
In Amar a Dios en Tierra de Indios, Es Oficio Maternal by Paloma Contreras Lomas, visitors encounter a dated car that has screeched to a halt. An absurd array of tangled limbs of two mysterious characters wearing long hats sprawl out of the car. Plush hands armed with soft-stuffed guns hang from the windows, barely camouflaged by the artificial overgrowth invading the sculpture. These strange characters accompany the visitor on a caricature of a Western-meets-sci-fi, audio-visual tour of the landscape, where Contreras Lomas pushes back at the violent male gaze of the landscape.
About Sunnylands
Sunnylands Center & Gardens is a contemporary public center with art exhibitions, a theater, multimedia offerings, indoor/outdoor café, gift shop, and nine acres of sustainable desert gardens. Guests can learn about the history of Ambassadors Walter and Leonore Annenberg at Sunnylands, the famous people who visited, and the contemporary mission of the Sunnylands Trust.
The adjoining historic Sunnylands estate, completed in 1966, served as the Annenbergs’ winter home, where they hosted seven U.S. presidents, British royalty, and famous entertainers of the 20th century. Today, the estate is a high-level retreat center, convening world leaders at the highest levels to address serious issues facing the nation and the world.
