"" Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice " gathers more than a dozen artists who are investigating social and environmental injustice in the world. "The lungs of our planet - oceans, forests and the atmosphere - are under threat, invaded by carbon emissions, plastics and man-made pollutants," write the exhibit's organizers. "The act of breathing was rendered even more perilous by the COVID-19 pandemic and police brutality.""
"Among the show's participants - contemporary artists, but also activists and scientists who work in photography, painting and sculpture - is Clarissa Tossin, who presents tangible monuments to the hard-to-visualize effects of climate change. Tossin has made a silicone cast of a peach tree in her garden in L.A., which died due to excessive heat and chronic drought. Brandon Ballengee, meanwhile, has created portraits of marine animals that've gone extinct due to human-made disasters, such as the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill."
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice centers breathing as metaphor and material, connecting respiratory vulnerability to climate and social harms. The exhibit presents more than a dozen contributors including contemporary artists, activists and scientists working in photography, painting and sculpture. Works highlight planetary lungs—oceans, forests and the atmosphere—threatened by carbon emissions, plastics and pollutants, and link respiratory peril to COVID-19 and police brutality. Clarissa Tossin offers a silicone cast of a heat- and drought-killed peach tree from Los Angeles. Brandon Ballengee presents portraits of marine species lost to human disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The show runs through November 29, 2025, at UC Davis’ Manetti Shrem Museum and is free.
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