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Exhibition: Ecotopia

ECOTOPIA

College Art Galleries 1&2
Jan 24 - May 7, 2014
Curated by Amanda Cachia

Artists include: BGL, David Brooks, Dagmara Genda, Rodney Graham, Isabelle Hayeur, Maude Leonard-Contant, Lynne Marsh, Lisa Sanditz, Jennifer Steinkamp, T & T, Tristram Lansdowne and Kate Wilson

Circulated by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.

This exhibition explores environmental conservation, destruction and the cacophonous blend of architecture and decay in our technological age. Ecotopian fiction is a subgenre of the utopian or dystopian, where a vision for a world is either ideal or a nightmare. An element of the scifi or futurism can be found in some of the work represented in this exhibition, where artists are offering an alternative for postmodern living, where nature and technology can live more harmoniously, without wreaking great havoc on our environment.

photo: Jennifer Steinkamp, Orbit 6, 2010, video still (detail), dimensions variable, edition of 3, approximately 4 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York