The exhibit at the Mackey Apartments includes work by Céline Brunko, Simona Ferrari and Philipp Fleischmann. (photo courtesy of Céline Brunko, Simona Ferrari and Philipp Fleischmann)

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents “Final Projects: Group LIII,” three bodies of work by artists and architects-in-residence Céline Brunko, Simona Ferrari and Philipp Fleischmann on display from Friday, Sept. 8, through Sunday, Sept. 10, at the Mackey Apartments, 1137 S. Cochran Ave.

“Final Projects: Group LIII” marks the culmination of the 53rd Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program at the Mackey Apartments. Through experience-based sound, video and photo installation, Brunko retraces the steps of material extraction from Los Angeles to the source in Irwindale, giving viewers an inside look at the natural and industrial landscape that built the city.

Living in exile in Los Angeles, Bertolt Brecht’s poetry maps his new physical surroundings as well as his emigrant experience. Using Brecht’s garden poems as an entry point to the city, Ferrari’s “Garden in Progress” is the culmination of a body of research that presents gardens as a lens for navigating Los Angeles.

With an inherent hierarchy built into the process of taking a photo with a camera, Fleischmann’s work asks the question, “How is it possible to formulate queer sensibilities while avoiding clear, traditional and highly problematic modes of representation?” His project utilizes the materials of the photographic medium itself to reimagine expectations and possibilities.

The MAK Center Artists and Architects-in-Residence program welcomes international artists at the intersection of architecture and visual culture for six-month residencies in Los Angeles. Initiated in October 1995, the program is funded by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, in cooperation with the MAK-Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.

An opening reception for “Final Projects: Group LIII” will be held on Sept. 7, from 6-8 p.m. Regular visiting hours at the Mackey Apartments are 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. For information and to RSVP, visit makcenter.org.