Artist Talk: "Neon Moss," Marianna Dixon Williams

Join Marianna Dixon Williams to learn more about their latest exhibition Neon Moss. 

This video installation examines the convergence of personal and environmental transformation through the dual lens of queer identity and the impacts of Hurricane Helene in the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA). The layered footage of the artist's hometown from before, during, and after the hurricane serves as an analogy for William's own coming-out and evolving relationship to home. Sculptures made from reclaimed storm debris create a meditation on disruption, exploring how climate change has rendered the global intimate and immediate, and what it means to call a place home in an era when environmental crisis has become inescapably personal.

Marianna Dixon Williams builds handmade electronic objects and develops installations that question themes of identity, environmental change, and the ability of this world to be simulated, emulated, and measured digitally. Their work presents broader conversations regarding world-building, evolving and eroding social systems, and the societal conditions that have impacted our visions for the future as they explore our interconnected relationships with the land, digital life and each other. 

Presented by the Department of Art and Smith Office for the Arts (SOFA).

Neon Moss will be on view in the Oresman Gallery, Hillyer Hall through October 16, 2025 (Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.). This event and this exhibition are free and open to the public. To learn more, click here.