The animal carcass sculptures are gruesome yet their materials — the artist’s own discarded clothing — lend them some gentleness.
Louis Bury
Louis Bury is the author of Exercises in Criticism (Dalkey Archive Press, 2015) and Assistant Professor of English at Hostos Community College, CUNY. He contributes regularly to BOMB, and has published art writing in the Brooklyn Rail and Art in America, as well as creative writing in Boston Review and the Believer.
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Who Owns the Earth?
This group show proposes fresh paradigms of land ownership and art making in contrast to the rugged individualism of much early Land Art.
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Imagining Our Climate Future
Speculations about climate change by an array of artists feel eerily probable, if not already real.
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An Archaeology of Loss in New York City
Mark Hage’s photos of empty storefronts reveal how real-estate development leaves behind sites of civic neglect.
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Ecological Art Infused by Memoir and Identity
Gyun Hur’s and Shoshanna Weinberger’s installations emphasize poetic innuendo rather than overt autobiography.
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Richard Mosse’s Photos Exoticize Disaster
Employing drones, Mosse creates psychedelic aerial maps of ecological degradation.
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Levan Mindiashvili’s Childhood Memories
Mindiashvili’s installations strike a teasing balance between disclosure and concealment.
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Mira Dayal Maps a Gallery Floor
The graphite floor map can be understood as a post-apocalyptic landscape, a commentary on artistic labor, or a parable about COVID-era confinement.
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Art That Goes With the Floe
Works by 10 artists have been installed on an ice floe in arctic Sweden where they will remain until the ice melts and they sink into the sea.
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Teresita Fernández Depicts Caribbean Colonialism and Eco-Trauma
Fernández employs motifs of darkness and obscurity to hint at the something beyond what we see.
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Mary Mattingly Confronts Climate Change With Utopic Resourcefulness
Mattingly’s landscape photographs evoke each site’s geologic timeline.
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Zac Skinner’s Survivalist Sculptures
Skinner imagines the jury-rigged technology that would enable survival in the wake of apocalyptic climate disaster.