#Repost @studiotomassaraceno with @make_repost ・・・ Free the Air from Particulate Matter! Announcing Particular Matter(s), Tomás’ largest US exhibition to date! On view at @theshedny from Friday, February 11 to Sunday, April 17, 2022, Particular Matter(s) features Free the Air: How to hear the universe in a spider/web, a 95-foot-diameter installation commissioned by The Shed that will fill the soaring 17,000-square-foot McCourt space, and an expansive survey exhibition of the Tomas’ works and projects in The Shed’s Level 2 and Level 4 Galleries. Combined, the exhibition totals approximately 25,000 square feet. Through floating sculptures, interactive installations, and an artistic process that centers collaboration, Particular Matter(s) proposes a situated knowledge of climate justice informed by various perspectives of human and nonhuman lifeforms that have been disregarded in the Capitalocene, such as the air, spiders and their webs, and communities impacted by inequitable environmental policies and practices. As journalist and eco-activist Harriet A. Washington notes in her catalogue essay, we do not all breathe the same air, and in a time of ongoing ecological crises, the very air we breathe has become a particular matter of concern: “The air has evolved with us: the primordial atmosphere’s mixture was rich in ammonia and methane at levels that rendered it incompatible with life until Earth’s chemical processes finally rendered it breathable. But today we face the prospect of air made, once again, incompatible with life—this time by our own hands.” How can we hear the universe in a spider/web to Free the Air from Particulate Matter? Spiders and arachnid diviners might hold the answer... #particulatematters #theshed #harrietawashington #Tomassaraceno #studiotomassaraceno #arachnophilia #freetheair Credits: Photography by Studio Tomás Saraceno Image 3, portrait of Harriet A. Washington courtesy of Yale University Press https://www.instagram.com/p/CZywEHelrtp/?utm_medium=tumblr
