Salon 1: Nature’s Trail
In this salon, the works of art are created by utilizing resources to make a statement, eco-friendly materials, or limbs of fallen trees. As a result, the pieces here emulate a complete, or nearly so, natural response to the social, political, and economic, issues that are the result of environmental injustice.
Mathilde Roussel’s Lives of Grass
“In art, one has to be the voice of one’s own time, not an echo of another era. We live in the age of plastic, and plastic bags are the most ordinary form of this material.”
Salon 2: Human Legacy
Unlike the salon above, these works of art are transformed from their original context of plastic bags, bike links, or cement, or symbols, to inform their viewers of the toxic side of the human enterprise. Innovation, while pertinent to society, has furthered the Anthropocene at a far greater rate. The man-made objects that either consume or are significant in these works of art are collected and cultivated by their artist, and the represented human form is trapped within a paradox of original intention and a transformed meaning.
Jason deCaries Taylor on why he is committed to helping the environment through art at the Museo Atlántico.