Ikon presents group exhibition which examines the theme of the desert. Throughout history the desert landscape has been a site of historical significance, spiritual discovery and a place for the imagination. The desert is often portrayed as a hostile environment, from Biblical associations of temptation and suffering to more recent imagery of film and television, with depictions of violence, disappearance and the debris of war. Hannah Collins’ large scale photographs of shifting sand engulfs the viewer with a barren terrain that seems to suggest another, unexplored territory over the horizon. Other artists focus on the atmospheric power of the landscape as a source of melancholia and loss. 

Artists include: Hannah Collins, Knut Maron, Sophoe Ristelhueber, Michal Rovner, Thomas Ruff, Frederick Sommer, Bill Viola, Verdi Yahooda.