A new group exhibition, spread over five different galleries in Mumbai, namely Galerie Max Mueller, Premchand Roychand Gallery, Studio X, Gallery Project 88, and Gallery Maskara, aims at raising awareness for the fact that a constructive sustainability can’t make do sans the arts and sciences. It needs to imbibe from these streams how to think in transitions, models and projects.
Curated by Adrienne Goehler, it tries to encourage visions of a sustainable life and move both aesthetic and cultural dimension of sustainability into acute awareness of the senses, looking to counteract the visible erosion of the term.
An accompanying essay elaborates on ‘zne! | examples to follow!’: “The finiteness of our energy reserves, the impending climate change, the shrinking of biodiversity have increasingly penetrated and alarmed the public consciousness even before the failed world climate summits." In essence, sustainability seeks a space for development as part of which the multiple interconnections between the wealth of knowledge and experience in the sciences and arts as well as the idea that each individual can well be a part of this can indeed unfold.
This expedition in aesthetics and sustainability can demonstrate artistic practices contributing to the planet’s preservation; aim to influence consumer behavior and become economically efficient; they also show artistic positions in which boundaries that exist between art and activism blur and environmental initiatives seamlessly interconnect with artistic approaches.
The participating artists are Sharmila Samant, Madhushree Dutta, Ravi Agarwal and Manish Nai along with Gustavo Romano who underline how sustainability needs a cooperative expansion of perception. They, as mentioned above, deliberately suspend the boundaries between technical and artistic creativity, between feasibility and idea. Sensuality here is the connecting element in the presentations and creations of the scientists and artists not only in works from the domains of design-architecture, but also through examples of sustainable economic activities that challenge individual action.
The exhibition will be accompanied by documentary film program, 'MEET THE ARTIST' presentations, workshops in sustainable, a panel discussion, lectures and presentations in an endeavor to explore necessary new alliances in the field of aesthetics and sustainability.
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