For his second solo exhibition at Helena Anrather, Nicky Nodjoumi presents a suite of recent paintings and works on paper. Expanding on his longstanding interest in news media as both performative tableau and raw material, the artist has developed many of the works in We the Witnesses from collaged newspaper photographs. The imagery populating the show—architectural destruction in Aleppo, a wooded countryside, discordant configurations of politicians and celebrities—reveal the artist’s multivalent understanding of landscape as physical terrain and sociopolitical context. In these works, Nodjoumi captures the contradictions through which landscapes provide backdrops for political theater while simultaneously offering direct testament to the ways in which the world is transfigured by violence and power.