Luciana Abait, Argentinian
The Maps That Failed Us, 2018-22
This sculpture is a part of Abait’s exhibition On The Verge, which depicts the global climate crisis and its impacts on humans and nature. A map containing climate change impacted migratory patterns overlays a sculpture that mimics the irregular shape of an iceberg. Abait incorporates her own experience immigrating from Argentina and explores the associated feeling of displacement in her art. Maps are an incredibly powerful art form that Abait executes profoundly through the traditional map color palette while visualizing climate migration routes. The iceberg shape also conveys how climate change is impacting the melting of ice, which directly impacts the migratory patterns depicted on the sculpture. The more time spent observing this complex, poignant sculpture, a new story will reveal itself. Label by Bayleigh Albert