Art as Infrastructure at the Medina Triennial

The inaugural Medina Triennial in Medina, New York, presented a community-wide exhibition across 10 locations in a rural town bisected by the Erie Canal, bringing together more than 100 artworks by 39 artists. Co-artistic directors Kari Conte and Karin Laansoo framed the triennial around “art as infrastructure,” commissioning projects that connect art, ecology, architecture, and rural culture while examining labor, regulation, extraction, and repair. The event included attention to sustainability and maintenance as a social and political act, with artist Mary Mattingly’s work serving as a key reference point for the reviewer’s visit. Mattingly is preparing “Floating Garden” (2026), a permanent iteration of her publicly accessible edible-garden project Swale, first launched on New York City’s East River in 2016.

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