Feb 24th 2017

Meimei Song: Altered Green Walk

@ gallery no one

1579 N Milwaukee Ave, Rm 303, Chicago, IL 60622

Opening Friday, February 24th, from 5PM - 8PM

On view through Sunday, February 26th

gallery no one is excited to present Meimei Song’s solo exhibition “Altered Green Walk.”

She writes,”I use sculpture installation, technology, live plants and social media to draw attention to the unresolved entanglement between technology and ecological crisis. I think art as a creative agency can provide a unique visual outlook that challenges what has been envisioned by progressivism as the landscape of our future relationship with nature. The visual transformation in natural landscape is greatly altered by this age of human domination addressed as the Anthropocene era. Human activities accelerated landscape transformation in various ways from urbanization to desertification. The satellite vision and the Internet shift the visuality of the nature landscape from the traditional horizon line to a more blurred out vertical dimension.

Plants play an important role in my installations as they have the unique ability to occupy space, grow and thrive on basic needs such as sunlight, air, and water; they are vertical life forms as the roots reach down for water and the shoots rise up for sunlight. The poetic parallel between plant life and human activity is what I am most curious in: would new hope emerge between the vulnerability of ecosystem and the resilience of vegetal life? In my speculative systems, all material, objects and living matter are given a chance to inhabited, grow, parasite and decompose, in finding a solution to our collective anxiety embedded in the ecological crisis.”

Reception:
5pm – 8pm, Feb 24th, 2017

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