Relationships to climate activism are getting more complicated, and the information we take in is becoming genuinely harder to trust. PHI is asking whether art might be better equipped than argument to navigate both, with two wildly different exhibitions this summer that approach the same question from opposite ends.
On one side, Paola Pivi's feathered polar bears, a miniature Statue of Liberty wearing a digital emoticon mask, and a black box room lined with 92 screens cycling through deceptively mundane open-source imagery while a voice calmly recites lies. On the other is Jakob Kudsk Steensen's immersive worlds built from places most of us will never see: collapsing glaciers, volcanic seafloors, forests where abandoned tourist resorts are slowly being swallowed back into the earth.
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