Miami Art Week 2019: Exhibitions On Sustainability
Three comprehensive art installations that asked viewers to consider the future of their surroundings
If artists, curators and gallerists all work from a place of expression, tackling subject matter that’s gripping their attention, there are few topics as personal—and universal—as our planet. This Miami Art Week was far from the first to address sustainability, but three large-scale installations handled several sub-topics with the necessary balance of intelligence, action and emotional drive. Further, in an industry of excessive packaging, disposable components and general wastefulness, the following exhibitions were built from pieces that will have a life long after the week’s end.
Instagram + Studio Swine at DesignMiami/
Within the walls of DesignMiami/, Instagram‘s @design installation abandoned the typical three-wall booth in favor of several 100% recyclable PVC bubbles by Studio Swine. Affixed to or presented inside of these lightweight, versatile displays, @design highlighted four future-forward projects: Yona Care’s redesigned speculum, ALLELES Design Studio’s prosthetic leg covers, Deva Pardue’s viral protest illustration and a computer by Kano that anyone can build at home. Of course, the whimsicality of the immersive exhibit aimed to please, but the careful concern for each and every design component—versatility and transportability, included—set it at another level.
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