Inaugural Exhibit on Climate Change
SEPTEMBER 7 - 22, 2024
Climate change is a vast, challenging thing to come to terms with. Philosopher Timothy Morton has called climate change a "hyperobject"-- something that we can't truly apprehend because it is massively distributed in time and space relative to humans. It's hard for us to get a phenomenon of such scale into our heads. In addition, climate change evokes all kinds of challenging emotions -- fear, anxiety, sadness, rage, and a desire for action. Yet, to confront the crisis, we must come to terms with it, however partially or imperfectly.
This exhibit presents the work of ten artists who help us grasp different aspects of the hyperobject. These diverse works explore three dimensions of climate change. Some help us glimpse the vast, human systems that are feeding the climate crisis and that need to stop or radically change. Others focus on Nature's resilience and awesome adaptability, but show that our future cannot be delinked from the rest of nature. The final group of works help us process our feelings about the climate emergency -- how rage can turn to activism and action; how powerlessness can turn into despair or denial, if we let it; and how gratitude and joy for what we still have can keep us going.
For BMore Art's review off the show, see here.
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