History as a Chorus: Reimagining Monumentality at SITE Santa Fe

• PUBLICATION Momus
• DATE January 8, 2026
• LINK momus.ca
• PDF cecimoss.com

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Launched in 1995, SITE International Biennial was the first biennial for contemporary art in the United States. Over the course of its eleven editions, the organization has primarily focused on bringing international artists to Santa Fe. Curator Cecilia Alemani’s exhibition, by contrast, is thoroughly rooted in Santa Fe and New Mexico, through both the selection of artists and the local stories imparted by their commissioned projects. In her catalogue essay, Alemani cites New Mexico poet N. Scott Momaday, who writes: “There are many stories in the one. And indeed there is one story in the many. We roll on wheels of words and dreams.” Following this sentiment, she expresses hope that the exhibition’s people-centered storytelling connects individuals to the collective, particularly in a region defined by shifting borders and conquests over its eight millennia of inhabitance.

— “History as a Chorus: Reimagining Monumentality at SITE Santa Fe” in Momus, January 8, 2026