Sarah Rosalena Brady: Above Below

“Above Below” is Sarah Rosalena Brady’s first solo presentation with Blum & Poe. The multi-racial Los Angeles-based artist’s work—which involves artificial intelligence, indigenous craft, and issues of decolonial posthumanism—examines climate change through ancient techniques and artificial neural networks. Power structures are debunked to reveal how human advancements like cartography, military mapping, and surveillance technology exploit minority groups and natural resources. These ideas are seen presented in the exhibition, specifically in a series of double-sided textiles made using a programmed Jacquard loom. Here, one pixel per thread weaves together satellite reconnaissance images that show planetary changes in water and climate over millions of years—captured from a circuit of neurons inside Earth.