Intrigued by the proposition of a visual in climate change I adventured to the DePaul University Museum of Art (
http://museums.depaul.edu) to view its current exhibit "Climate of Uncertainty"- an exhibit showing "the work of twelve artists who address issues of environmental degradation resulting from human activities...".
The exhibit placed me in a self reflective mode and provocatively forced me to interact, if nothing else via thought reflections and memory. An exhibit worth your time, energy, and certainly your thoughts!
Here are few artists that their work spoke to me the most:
The works that attracted me the most were those of Edward Burtynsky, a Canadian photographer, with an image from his Manufacturing series (
edwardburtynsky.com)
Chris Jordan, another photographer, disrupted me with his disturbing images of young albatrosses killed by plastic waste they ingest mistakenly (
chrisjordan.com). It took me to what I have observed so many times on the surface of our dear Lake Michigan ...
Sabrina Raaf (
raaf.org), a Chicago- based artist, introduced me to "Grower", a robotic piece that measures the carbon dioxide levels in the gallery and translates the readings onto walls as strokes of
green pain
and this is "Grower" at work ...
The black crows of Maskull Lasserre, Montreal-based artist (
maskulllasserre.com), entitled "Murder" is visually shocking and quite painful to view. I found myself thinking in my dear South America soil and the deforestation of the Amazons, in Chernobyl's nuclear contamination or BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...
multi-screen video projection "Three Gorges 3rd edition", which projects images of the Yangtze River onto three walls, replicating the experience of being in a boat cruise. In it "we" arrive to the hydroelectric dam ("the largest in the world"). I did not take a photo of this installation. You can view
one though downloading the exhibit catalogue here:
