Through aesthetically beautiful works and educational programming, the viewer
reflects on the collision of consumer culture on the natural world.
Not exact matches
A frontal oblique to
reflect how well occupants fare when the
collision isn't exactly head -
on or right - angle;
Recycled plastic iceberg sculptures cover the floor and glow eerily under black light while scents waft through the air and videos documenting
collisions between the natural and manmade world stream continuously
on two glass screens that
reflect images onto the walls.
Giving insight into the the perspectives of artists from across Brussels, Chicago, Oaxaca and Guatemala, the exhibition
reflects on their differing conceptual and physical topologies in a «spontaneous and reactive» curatorial gesture, founded
on exchange and resulting in a
collision of «the presence of works with a dissolution of discourse».
This work draws upon the patterns and motifs used by Persian rug makers, especially the way Afghani weavers use the rug to record their experiences more literally with vivid images of the war torn land that surrounds them.This
collision between the old and the new, fact and fiction, surveillance and invisibility, is part of a strategy to
reflect on the global order of things.