Daytripper / ATL Hartsfield-Jackson Airport
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On view April 2024-Janurary 2026 at Gate E10
MaDora Frey's immersive installations reinterpret landscape painting, transforming spaces into visually and tactilely engaging experiences. The works echo the artist’s psychological and physical encounters with outdoor environments. By integrating video footage, projections, natural materials, dichroic film, mirrors, and other illusionistic elements, Frey seeks to capture and convey the profound sensory dimensions of a specific moment in time.
In "Daytripper," Frey transports us to Arabia Mountain, a former granite quarry and African American Heritage site near her childhood home. Once heavily altered by mining, nature is now reclaiming the site as vibrant wildflowers and diamorpha explode during early Spring. Through deep attention and a slowed-down perspective, Frey uses artificial means to encourage the viewer to decelerate and seek out the restorative power of the natural world.
Artist and critic Pam Longobardi writes, Frey’s work “challenges us to reconsider the future relationship between humans and the natural world. Are the technological advances that enable us to experience her simulations of nature fostering a deeper love for and protection of the environment? Or do the very materials she employs—such as silicone chips, metal oxides on glass, and plastic resins—represent what is contributing to the climatic changes that threaten our planet?”