Shay Salehi
July 4, 2025
In Shay Salehi's HARD SHOULDER, a cross-country drive unfolds through Google Maps, revealing a mediated landscape marked by erasure and rupture. Glitched images of nonhuman animals flicker as unintended witnesses to human infrastructure and digital oversight, echoing the broader inquiry into the margins of roads, bodies, and systems. The work confronts the highway as a site of violence and hierarchy, exposing the costs of expansion and control.
