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if you stare at a cowboy’s face for long enough, it turns into a sunset cassette

$14.00

Sound by Hannah Spector on cassette tape

The desert is not a void, as it is so often depicted–it is an active landscape with vibrational subtleties that reward deep listening and looking. For half a decade, Hannah Spector has been travelling to West Texas multiple times a year to listen to this landscape. Their exhibition at Women & Their Work, if you stare at a cowboy’s face for long enough, it turns into a sunset, places queer bodies within a new mythos–one that turns against the hyperreal object of the American West as an imperial proving ground.

Sound by Hannah Spector on cassette tape

The desert is not a void, as it is so often depicted–it is an active landscape with vibrational subtleties that reward deep listening and looking. For half a decade, Hannah Spector has been travelling to West Texas multiple times a year to listen to this landscape. Their exhibition at Women & Their Work, if you stare at a cowboy’s face for long enough, it turns into a sunset, places queer bodies within a new mythos–one that turns against the hyperreal object of the American West as an imperial proving ground.

Hannah Spector is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, poet, and educator.

Spector thinks of language as a solid object—a concrete and spatial expression that can overturn limiting perceptions of the everyday.

Spector has shown their work at Transformer Gallery (DC), The CAM Perennial (TX), Stoveworks (TN), The Katzen (DC), and Women and Their Work (ATX). Spector’s short films have won prizes at Dumbo Film Festival, Berlin Short Film Festival, and Bodega Film Festival. They have completed residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2024), Stoveworks (TN), The Museum of Human Achievement (ATX), and MASS Gallery (ATX).

They are an Assistant Professor of Practice at UT Austin and a member of MASS Gallery.They curate the deep listening project, MASS Ambient.