Placed presents the first of our annual hosting series in which we invite guest curators
into our space and encourage them to make it their own. March 8-May 5th, we welcome Strata Editions and its exhibition “Western Contemporary.”

Strata Editions 🔗 was founded by Will Warasila as an on-going experimental photography
project documenting the relations between people and their surroundings. “Western
Contemporary” brings together sixteen photographers who take as their subject the
American West. In work ranging from the eerily real (Susan Lipper, “Domesticated
Land”) to the slyly reimagined (Cassandra Klos, “Mars on Earth”), each photographer
turns their lens in that nebulous direction we collectively call “the West.”

This hosting series continues our commitment to thinking about the role place has in the
creative process, as well as the way our community can share these places to make room
for everyone.