Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024. Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
[+]Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024. Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
[-]Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024. Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
[+]Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024. Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
[-]Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024 (detail). Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
[+]Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024 (detail). Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
[-]Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024 (detail). Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
[+]Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024 (detail). Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
[-]Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024 (detail). Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
[+]Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024 (detail). Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
[-]Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024. Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
[+]Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024. Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
[-]Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024 (detail). Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
[+]Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024 (detail). Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
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Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024. Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024. Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024 (detail). Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024 (detail). Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024 (detail). Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024. Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
Tessa Mars, In a barren land we make do, 2024 (detail). Installation view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Alex Marks.
Founded in 2007, Prospect New Orleans is a triennial citywide exhibition of contemporary art featuring artists from Louisiana and around the globe. For Prospect’s sixth iteration, co-Artistic Directors Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson highlight New Orleans’ role as a global city situated in the future, where questions around survival, continuance and joy are being asked in advance of other places. New Orleans is also positioned as a city that reflects “the global majority,” a term used to describe the near eighty percent of the global population comprised of Indigenous, African, Asian, Latin American and mixed-heritage peoples. The exhibition’s fifty-one artists, presented across twenty-plus venues, honor this city’s history and offer opportunities for shared contemplation, discovery and a reimagining of possibilities.