Petra Cortright: ‘Baleaf Gys Akademiks Maamgic Brokig,’ 2021, installation view at Société Berlin // Courtesy of the artist and Société, Berlin
by Cristina Ramos | Dec. 7, 2021
“We sat down with American artist Petra Cortright on the occasion of her current exhibition ‘Baleaf Gys Akademiks Maamgic Brokig’ at Société Berlin. The exhibition presents a series of landscape paintings alongside a video piece, loosely inspired by heaven and hell, infused with the countryside of the American West and the laws of nature it contains. Provoking an ambiguous feeling in the viewer—perhaps pleasant, sometimes disturbing—Cortright builds infinite fantasy worlds within the digital paintings, employing found imagery from the net and image-editing software.”