The SuperNatural 2.0
- Nancy Baker Cahill, CORPUS, 2022-2026. Augmented reality. Courtesy of the artist.
- Richard Mosse, Beast of Burden, 2015. Digital chromogenic print
- Nancy Baker Cahill, WIDOW, 2024. Graphite, acrylic, silk, paper. Courtesy of the artist
About the Exhibition
Bentonville, On View Through December 2026
“As images of the post-industrial world transform into
the bytes and pixels of the digital age, the sublime is
becoming the supernatural.”
Invoking past and future in a critique of the present, these paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, and XR artworks in The SuperNatural 2.0 document observed, current realities while referencing the aesthetic traditions of the 19th and 20th centuries. Influenced by Romanticism and Surrealism, science and commerce, these visions narrate how the dreams and detritus of the industrial era generated the promise and peril of the digital age and explore the potential for adaptation to the visceral and virtual realities of an increasingly entangled future.
The exhibition, which remains on view through December 2026 throughout the 21c Bentonville gallery spaces, presents a thematic group exhibition of 90 multi-media artworks by 43 artists from across the globe exploring how the natural world is now experienced and understood as both organic and artificial.
This exhibition is dedicated to the memory of artist Chris Doyle (1959-2025). “I make work to connect.”