Earthly Visions: Inside the Climate Crisis
September 8–December 16, 2023
Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago
Jeremy Bolen, Theo Cuthand, Ursula Biemann, Terry Evans, Lorraine Gilbert, Cydney Lewis, Nnenna Okore, Tomás Saraceno
Earthly Visions: Inside the Climate Crisis features a group exhibition of local, national, and international artists engaged in how we understand and respond to the climate crisis. This year’s unusual and extreme weather events have made the climate crisis more immediately palpable. Artists like so many people are asking questions about how we respond and what the crisis means in our lives. The exhibition offers an opportunity to contemplate small and large ways to both take action and rethink what that action entails.
The eight included artists employ an array of media—photography, prints, sculpture, video, and installation—to visualize scientific solutions, reconceptualize caretaking, document inventive activism, and explore material alternatives to carbon-based substances. Their artistic approaches—from humorous narrative strategies to minimalist indexing, from documentary filmmaking to material investigations—unearth new ways to understand our relationship to living in an emergency, caring for our environment, and grasping the scope of possible solutions.
Press:
Newcity Art
Energy News
September 8–December 16, 2023
Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago
Jeremy Bolen, Theo Cuthand, Ursula Biemann, Terry Evans, Lorraine Gilbert, Cydney Lewis, Nnenna Okore, Tomás Saraceno
Earthly Visions: Inside the Climate Crisis features a group exhibition of local, national, and international artists engaged in how we understand and respond to the climate crisis. This year’s unusual and extreme weather events have made the climate crisis more immediately palpable. Artists like so many people are asking questions about how we respond and what the crisis means in our lives. The exhibition offers an opportunity to contemplate small and large ways to both take action and rethink what that action entails.
The eight included artists employ an array of media—photography, prints, sculpture, video, and installation—to visualize scientific solutions, reconceptualize caretaking, document inventive activism, and explore material alternatives to carbon-based substances. Their artistic approaches—from humorous narrative strategies to minimalist indexing, from documentary filmmaking to material investigations—unearth new ways to understand our relationship to living in an emergency, caring for our environment, and grasping the scope of possible solutions.
Press:
Newcity Art
Energy News
Photos by Clare Britt