[Obstructed view of the house through the trees with the road visible on the left side in the foreground.] or black point reinterpretive site

Or Black Point Reinterpretive Site an installation by Torreya Cummings & Sarah Lowe curated by Elena Gross December 13, 2025 - March 29, 2026 Opening reception: December 13, 2025, 3-5 pm The gallery will be open during SF Art Week , Jan 17- Jan 25, 2026 . S pecial hours on Monday, January 19- Wednesday, January 21, 12-5 pm or black point reinterpretive site is an immersive, site-responsive installation and replica of a 19th-century Victorian "period room," constructed by multidisciplinary artists Torreya Cummings and Sarah Lowe. Period rooms function as domestic interior spaces to present a wealthy family's opulent and often exotic treasures. At Berkeley Art Center, Cummings & Lowe have fashioned theatrical backdrops, handcrafted facsimiles, props, furniture, and created a stage to play out the political dramas of natural history, colonialism, and mechanical interventions into the Northern California landscape from the time of Western expansion to the present day. These fabricated scenes challenge and question how art and artifice, photography and commercialism, have functioned as tools of both history-making and historical erasure. black point reinterpretive site explores the changes in landscape, in natural species evolution (or extinction), and in the proliferation of industry and development of the Bay Area as a wink to the near-distant past and as a potential warning sign for the future. The massive installation spans the entire gallery and includes sculpture, photography, textiles, soundscapes, and a live fountain, with the heightened artificiality of a theater stage that destabilizes the presumed authority of the museum by being honestly false. Cummings & Lowe invite us into this figurative hall of mirrors to better understand where we stand today and how quickly the tides can turn for all of us.