Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow is the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the United States. Across an installation, a video, and a series of commissioned sculptures, Erlanger continues her decade-long investigation into what it means to call a planet home. Informed by her interest in “closed worlds”—human-made, climate-controlled environments—the artist has produced all newly commissioned work. Erlanger is converting the gallery into a sculptural landscape comprising distinct yet interrelated zones: a set showcasing her short film Appliance(2024); dioramas of off-world landscapes and impossible architectures; illuminated planet sculptures; and a constellation of arrows piercing the Museum’s brutalist staircase.
Directed by Olivia Erlanger
Written by Olivia Erlanger
Produced by Jill Ferraro & Ani Schroeter, a Paradise Production
Cinematography by Mia Cioffi Henry
Cast Callie Hernandez & Sasha Frolova
On Exhibit Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
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