Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials
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Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials features twenty-two artists from North, Central, and South America who embrace the unpredictable nature of living materials. These artists use materials such as avocado, cacao, achiote, cochineal, stone, clay, and natural dyes to create large-scale installations, paintings, works on paper, and mixed-media sculpture. Each of these materials is alive—they evolve, decay, drip, crumble, and evaporate. They are rooted in the spirit, memory, and knowledge of Brown and Indigenous worlds. The exhibition considers ideas around materials as records of the living and repositories of cosmic memory, organic decay and transformation.
Artists
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Jackie Amézquita |
Raven Halfmoon |
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Sky Hopinka, Mnemonics of Shape and Reason, 2021HD video, stereo sound, color. 4:13 min. Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Leighton, Berlin and Los Angeles
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Edgar Calel, Oyonïk paruwi Juyu’ (Invocation over the mountains), 2024Soil, claypots, water, rose petals, twigs. Installation view, Ni Musmut (It's Breezing), Bergen Kunsthall, August 30, 2024-January 5, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist and Bergen Kunsthall. Photo: Thor Brødreskift
Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials is organized by Pablo José Ramírez, curator, with Jessi DiTillio, curatorial assistant.
Lead support for the exhibition is provided by Teiger Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Major support is provided by Alicia Miñana and Robert Lovelace. Generous support is provided by Eloisa and Chris Haudenschild. Additional support is provided by Betty Duker, Beth and Kenneth Karmin, and Tracy O'Brien and Thaddeus Stauber.
Media sponsorship is provided by KCRW 89.9FM
All exhibitions at the Hammer are made possible by the Hammer Exhibition Fund. Lead support is provided by Alice and Nahum Lainer. Generous support is provided by Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein, Christine Meleo Bernstein and Armyan Bernstein, and Bill Hair.
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