TRADE (At World’s Center), New York, New York
Governors Island Residency - Swale House
Photographic Research
10.2023
Growing up in the western state of Colorado, Russell reflects on his own American identity and the distance between himself and the resonance of colonial markers that defined the early fabrication of New York City. From wildfires to gunpowder, acts of surveillance to looming shadows of violence, Trade (At World’s Center) searches the geospatial intersections between the many inhabitants of Governors Island, human or other, translocating across vast distances that inexplicably coalesced artifacts of global commerce within one location. Russell’s work explores disembodiment and placelessness, a taxonometric historiography dissecting the narratives of belonging.