GROUP EXHIBITION

On one hand, certain artists have reflected upon the human habit of recording nature—Alberto Baraya and Cassio Vasconcellos for example, produce exercises on the historical trajectory of encounters with nature and how these may have matured in contemporary civilization. Others, such as Amelia Toledo extract parts of the Earth’s anatomy, creating quite literal encounters with its beauty; Isaac Julien considers and disrupts the notions of beauty and preciousness in nature, established by humans; while Laura Vinci abruptly forces an encounter between the viewer and the unyielding, daunting and even violent essence of nature.

Sweet Spontaneous Earth ultimately offers a reflection on how humans have reacted to what Cummings called the earth’s rhythmic love, rhythmic in its existence, in its affection, in its strength, and in its fragility.