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Bioshperes
31.10.2009 – 05.04.2010
The new understanding of climate change and its predicted global increase have clearly shown how human behaviour in one geographical region can affect life in another, how individuals can impact upon other human beings’ living conditions, how certain populations’ lifestyle affects the environment, and how changes in the natural world conversely can induce migration and societal changes. The exhibition RETHINK Relations featured works by visual artists who in differing ways are interested in these new, complex chains of cause and effect.
Inflatable acrylic modules suspended by webs of chords—inspired by studies on the formation of clouds, soap bubbles and geometric principles of spider webs—take over the museum’s space for us to imagine other ways of experiencing the webs of life. While several of them are home to plant-based ecosystems, the largest of them invites visitors to step inside and inhabit these spheres themselves.
Saraceno is originally trained as an architect, and his biospheres can be seen as models for alternative types of social spaces and habitats for human and non-humans. In this context he is interested in airspace (in other, outdoor projects he quite specifically works with the sky), which to him represents a “free” untamable space which cannot be subject to national restrictions, allowing us to move unreservedly as it still remains with no borders. Thus, we become aware of that which surrounds us invisible to the eyes, yet fundamental to our existence. Biospheres explores the consequences of ongoing global crisis by making use of technological developments, to reflect upon our current human condition and open the doors to experience new and exciting forms of organizing and inhabiting the world around us.
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