This never-before-exhibited body of work opens with a collection of small gelatin silver prints, shot in the early 2000s, depicting varying scenes across the Deep South.

Hauser & Wirth’s Susan Rothenberg exhibition The Weather features fourteen paintings that illustrate Rothenberg’s extraordinary ability to discern and renegotiate disparate fragments in a resolved whole. A relentless drive to illustrate humanity through weathered surfaces is at the crux of the exhibition.

Incorporating pictures taken in Italy as a fellow at the American Academy in Rome alongside imagery from Gray’s extensive photographic archive, the photo assemblages may immediately appear as a fragmented collection of juxtaposing narratives. However, close looking reveals the opposite to be true: Gray’s clever layering of forms and critical consideration of colonialism’s origins and repercussions illuminate striking parallels across time and space.