Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials
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Several Eternities in a Day explores the intertwined relationship between living materials and contemporary art. For this group of twenty-two artists from North, Central and South America, materials such as stones, avocado, cacao, achiote, cochineal, and clay operate as vital forces in a creation process informed by ancestral practices. Through large-scale installations, painting, mixed-media sculpture, video, and sound, the works in this exhibition challenge common assumptions about the perception of physical form. These artworks invite us to participate not just by seeing but by smelling, touching, and listening. The exhibition considers ideas around organic decay, materials as records of the living and repositories of cosmic memory, Brownness, and Indigeneity. By bringing together artists across media and regions, the exhibition creates a space of multiple temporalities in flux, of several eternities—a celebration and a ceremony for all those beings with whom we share stories and land.
Artists
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Jackie Amézquita |
Raven Halfmoon |
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![Three earthen pots, filled with flower petals with a twig laying across the top, on a bed of soil]()
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 Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials is provided by Teiger Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. 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.
