Greetings From The Mirage [2023]

In 2023, Group X and artist Matty Geez created Greetings From The Mirage, a domed sculptural art installation that transports visitors to a surrealist soft desert.

Located in the grassy field found at 11th Street and Kitty Hawk Avenue at the Navy Yard, Greetings From The Mirage featured an artist’s vision of a desert landscape made with over a dozen larger-than-life-sized cacti created from colorful and soft textiles, which all sat inside a 20’ x 36’ dome.

Working in the realm of sculpture, Matty Geez’s pieces were three dimensional but maintained a kinship to two-dimensional works. His sculptures verge on the edge of fantastic, flamboyant and oversaturated, while holding onto familiar botanical shapes. Juxtaposition of hard and soft along with the use of color explores gender identities and breaking the binary that exists in our current world.

With the support of Group X, Matty has created an entirely new body of work that had crash landed onto the Navy Yard in the Spring of 2023. These were some of his largest sculptures to date, and were meant to envelope and engage viewers in an entirely surreal environment.

Project website: navyyard.org/mirage