Mutual Terrain:
Denver Month of Video (MOV)
July 11-August 3, 2025
Opening reception: Friday, July 11, 6-9pm
About Mutual Terrain
Curated by Adán De La Garza and Jenna Maurice
Mutual Terrain brings together works that examine the deep entanglements between human life and the natural world.
Through imagery, memory, and place-based reflection, this exhibition explores the land not as a passive backdrop but as an active, animate force—one that remembers, resists, and collaborates.
Together, these pieces form a collective meditation on interdependence, offering pathways to reimagine our relationships with the environments we inhabit.
They invite viewers to consider how landscapes shape and are shaped by human presence, challenging the myth of the land as neutral or static.
A Note on Time
These works don’t reveal everything at once—they unfold gradually. Unlike still images, time-based media reveals itself moment by moment: through rhythm, repetition, transformation, or narrative. You’re warmly encouraged to linger, to watch, to return. Let the pace of each piece guide you.
Rick Silva. Western Fronts: Cascade Siskiyou, Gold Butte, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Bears Ears. Digital video still. 2018.
Mutual Terrain Opening Reception
Opening reception: Friday, July 11, 6-9pm
“‘Mutual Terrain’ brings together six artists whose works reveal the land as a living presence—one that remembers, resists, and responds. This exhibition invites viewers to reconsider their relationship to the natural world, not as separate from it, but as deeply entangled within it.”
Meet the Artists
Nika Kaiser
“Soft Slough”
Felix Kalmenson
“A Line is Not a Line”
Ali Cherri
“The Digger”
Ella Morton
“The Great Kind Mystery”
Rick Silva
“Western Fronts: Cascade Siskiyou, Gold Butte, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Bears Ears”
Nina Kurtela
“Dear Aki”
Meet the Curators
Adán De La Garza and Jenna Maurice are the founders of Denver Month of Video. They’re also artists who care about making things happen in their community.
Adán De La Garza
Adán De La Garza is an artist, co-conspirator, curator/programmer, and recovering academic. Usually in that order, depending on what job he’s applying for.
Adán was a co-conspirator of the media arts exhibition series Nothing To See Here (2013-2016), is the sole member of the anonymous video screening series Collective Misnomer (2016 - present), and smashes a lot of buttons putting on video game exhibitions with Dizzy Spell (2018 - present).
Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Adán is currently based in Denver, Colorado, where he hates writing in the third person.
Jenna Maurice
RedLine Resident Alum Jenna Maurice is a video, photo, and performance artist based in Denver, CO. Her work explores relationships—with herself, others, the past, and the landscape—through non-verbal communication and the complicated language of being human.
She has degrees, has shown her work around the world, and could list the names—but dislikes when bios turn into a name-dropping contest. She believes that good art doesn’t have an expiration date and also finds writing in the third person kind of unsettling.
About Denver Month of Video (MOV)
This exhibition is presented as part of Month of Video (MOV), a citywide initiative fostering critical dialogue and celebrating the diversity and innovation of video as a contemporary art form.
