Select “play” button to view video excerpt of Tell it to the River exhibition installed at Other Plans gallery
Tell it to the River, 2025, 5-channel audio-video installation TRT: 10:00 min, archival pigment prints on aluminum framed in wild fired Mississippi River Clay exhibited at Other Plans Gallery
In her immersive exhibition at Other Plans, Cristina Molina’s multi-channel video projection carries us through the gallery, halting at a beautiful installation of delicate objects framing photographs of water. Working with dancers, musicians, and clay from the Mississippi River, she highlights water’s qualities in sensual ways that simultaneously bring us into our bodies and prompt us to examine our relationships to the natural world. - Astrida Neimanis, cultural theorist and writer. Read full interview between Astrida Neimanis x Cristina Molina here
“Tell it to the River subtly addresses the predicament faced by residents of this place: we are burdened by the inescapable knowledge that this city cannot be permanent. Our material culture and built environment are existentially threatened by sea level rise, intensifying hurricanes, coastal erosion and land loss. One day – though we can’t say when – the sense of safety that we have callously engineered will prove insufficient or too costly to maintain. Despite this, the liminal ecosystem draws and compels us against all logic: we recognize something sacred in its semi-liquid ground and heavy air, its resilient megaflora and volatile atmospheric temperament. The film mediates on this precarity with equal parts curiosity and reverence, and seeks to explore what the river might know or desire – before or beyond us.” -Dr. Allison K. Young, Review, Burnaway Magazine, read full review here