
Will Boone
Texas is surrounded by legends of violence and bizarre phenomena that are surpassed in strangeness only by the land itself. Will Boone’s site-specific exhibition “The Highway Hex” embraces and tests perceptions of the state's ethos.
With reference to “highway hypnosis”—a sort of trance caused by driving for long distances—the show traces a route from California to the artist’s home state of Texas. The centerpiece of the exhibition, Sweet Perfume (all works 2019), is a fan-fiction video based on Leatherface, the infamous character from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), here played by the artist’s