2025
Land Alive
Chorlton imagines the desert landscape as a thinking presence whose roads, rocks, animals, shadows and canyons pose questions that exceed ordinary human answers.
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2024
Elected
A rock-star persona turns an election campaign into a performance, repeatedly demanding to be elected while mixing patriotic imagery, celebrity swagger, promises and the language of popular entertainment.