What is intelligence, where it can be found, and where it can go, asks Espoo Museum of Modern Art group show, featuring Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Refik Anadol, Raimo Saarinen and more
‘This show is not only about art and science, but about science that is partly real, partly speculative and partly imaginary,’ says curator Arja Miller of ‘In Search of the Present’ at Espoo Museum of Modern Art in southern Finland. She is standing in front of a paper bag tethered to a rope that is ‘breathing’ in and out. Entitled, it’s a replica of the bag Finnish movie star Seena Sella breathes into, shown in an accompanying film, and is by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer .
The new work is disturbing, and will be even more so when 85-year-old Sella passes away, but Lozano-Hemmer sees this, and previouseditions in Ecuador, Canada, the US and Cuba as ‘a romantic attempt at capturing the presence of someone deceased’.Lozano-Hemmer is one of 16 artists showing at ‘In Search of the Present’, the second of an ongoing series of exhibitions that began at EMMA in 2016.
from the 1960s, EMMA lends itself perfectly to large, site-specific works, two of which were made for the show. Finnish artist Raimo Saarinen built a vertical slope covered in plants that has plastic drain pipes and tubing running through it. His point? That what we see and think of as natural may well not be, and that the imprint of humanity, even if it is hidden, is everywhere and has a huge impact on ecosystems.
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