This exhibition is the fruit of a multi-site collaboration focused on the action of gathering. Prefacing concepts or topics with an attention to movement, the artists sought to bridge divides of manual and intellectual labor, nature and culture. Their works are inspired by the ceaseless work of gathering wood for village cookstoves or bundling rice to bring to market,  by the  rustle of the desert winds that fertilize the Amazon with Saharan sand. Attention to bindings leads to reflections on how words gathered as law or tradition shape human fortunes and bodies as they do the natural world.