Lucy+Jorge Orta: Food-Water-Life
September 6 – December 16, 2012
Public Opening Reception: September 11, 5:30-8:00PM
Tisch Family Gallery
The sculptures, drawings, installations and videos by this French wife-husband
duo, Lucy+Jorge Orta, collectively explore major concerns that define the 21st
century: biodiversity, environmental conditions, climate change, and exchange
among peoples. These models and machines, constructed by the Ortas, suggest ways
to purify, prepare and transport food and water, or launch a world-wide
humanitarian effort. These humorous, jerrybuilt contraptions are poetic
metaphors for these processes, and demonstrate the importance of art as a
creative agent for awareness and change. This show is the first major traveling
exhibition in the U.S. of the Ortas' work; it is guest curated by C2|curatorsquared
and organized by the Tufts University Art Gallery.
Partial support provided by the Cultural Service of the French Consulate in Boston.
Lucy+Jorge Orta/Food-Water-Life,
published in 2011 by Princeton Architectural Press, with contributions by Judith
Hoos Fox and Ginger Gregg Duggan, Hou Hanru, Ellen Luptan, and Zoe Ryan, serves
as the accompanying publication. It may
be purchased for $40 from www.papress.com or at the Tufts University Art
Gallery; 192 pages; 300 color illustrations.
Download
the Press Release >
Artists with conscience: Husband-wife duo use whimsy to comment
on social issues by Cate McQuaid (Boston Globe, Sept 14, 2012)
Gallery Review | Food-Water-Life' defies modernist cliché by
Caroline Welch
Listen to our guided tour stops here:
STOP 1:
FOOD-WATER-LIFE—Lucy+Jorge Orta,
Judith Hoos Fox, guest co-curator
STOP 2:
Introduction to Food section, Ginger Gregg Duggan, guest co-curator
STOP 3:
Introduction to Water section, Judith Hoos Fox
STOP 4:
Introduction to Life section, Ginger Gregg Duggan
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