On the eve of COP28 in the UAE, NYU Abu Dhabi’s art gallery considers the intersection of human interaction with the planet in art. the only constant Bringing together major projects ranging from poignant large-scale landscapes to sprawling installations that consider our impact on the planet. This exhibition is curated by Maya Allison (Executive Director, NYU School of Art) as part of her ongoing research on the contemporary art landscape.

The artists here see the contemporary landscape as a place of profound tension: we change the landscape, and the landscape changes us. Even though we may yearn for an unspoiled paradise, humans build future utopias. Utopias and paradises have come and gone (change is the only constant). This tension is the basis of the problems we face as human beings on this planet.

These artists transform the act of seeing into an experience of witnessing: observing a pollution vortex recorded on delicate rice paper (Vivek Vilasini); washing the hull of an entire ship by hand to acknowledge the loss of the Aral Sea (Zhang Yi); Every detail of the dense landscape (Sharon Lockhart). The exhibition begins with the concept of Paradise (Thomas Struth), opposite an untamable sea (Clifford Ross). It centers on technological aspirations and the inscrutable imprint of our existence on Earth. Taus Makhacheva asks: “When is land an object to own or a territory to mark?” Abandoned mansions would have incredible beauty if humans did not destroy the landscape (Gil Heitor Cortesão). What if we surrounded the sun with solar panels and blocked the light? The exhibition ends with Haroon Mirza imagining the question in a living garden fed by light from solar panels.

Maya Allison, Executive Director, NYU Art Galleries

the only constant Open until June 4th, Tues-Sun 12pm-8pm.

For more details, please visit nyuad-artgallery.org.

Founded in 2014, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Art Gallery The first museum of its kind in the Bay Area and one of only university galleries in the region with a program of academic and experimental museum exhibitions.

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