Exhibit: Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere

Candice Lin, Memory (Study #2), 2016, detail. Distilled communal piss of the people hosting the work, glass jar, Lion’s mane mushrooms in substrate, plastic. 9.5 x 13 x 9 in. (24 x 33 x 23 cm). Image courtesy the artist, Commonwealth and Council and François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo: Ruben Diaz.

Nour Mobarak, Reproductive Logistics, 2020. Trametes versicolor, apple wood pellets, kraft paper, watercolor, hair, sperm, acrylic, resin, 65 1/2 × 75 × 12 1/2 in. (166.4 × 190.5 × 31.8 cm). Courtesy the artist and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York. Photo: Stephen Faught

Published

October 21, 2022

Source

https://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions/symbionts-contemporary-artists-biosphere

A new exhibition, co-curated by HTC's Caroline Jones, is on view through February 26, 2023 at the MIT List.

Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere brings together over a dozen international artists whose work prompts us to reexamine our human relationships to the planet’s biosphere through the lens of symbiosis, or “with living.”

Symbionts are organisms of different species that are found together and that thrive through their interdependent relations. They include mutualists such as the bee and the apple blossom as well as microbial organisms that circulate in the atmosphere, oceans, and soil to make the oxygen we breathe. Symbionts can also hover as potential predators or bloom as parasites—all forms of entanglement considered by the artists in Symbionts.

Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere is curated by Caroline A. Jones, Natalie Bell, and Selby Nimrod with research assistance by Krista Alba.

Learn more and visit: https://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions/symbionts-contemporary-artists-biosphere