Tomás Saraceno: Entangled Air
On view through May 21, 2023
Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
marquette.edu/haggerty
“[T]oday more than ever, the air is becoming a matter of concern, in a world where breathing is not implicitly granted, but is becoming an asset. It is crucial to think of new practices among the disciplines that help re-imagine the air, beyond the privileged breathing of the few.”
For more than two decades Argentina-born, Berlin-based artist Tomás Saraceno has activated projects aimed towards rethinking the co-creation of the atmosphere with the goal of eliminating carbon emissions. The works in this exhibition speak to Saraceno’s ongoing desire to communicate the extent to which humans, animals and plants relate to the air. Within this codependent ecosystem, humans unequally share the air and disproportionately harm the atmosphere: combustion-generated pollutants from burning coal, oil, and natural gas have far-reaching impacts on public health and climate change.
[Image: Tomás Saraceno]
