Several eternities in a day : form in the age of living materials /
"United by their innovative use of natural materials, 22 international artists compose a space of multiple temporalities, invoking all things with which we share the land. For these 22 artists, materials operate as vital forces in the creation process. Their works are informed by ancestral prac...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles : New York, NY :
Hammer Museum ; Delmonico Books,
2026.
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| Summary: | "United by their innovative use of natural materials, 22 international artists compose a space of multiple temporalities, invoking all things with which we share the land. For these 22 artists, materials operate as vital forces in the creation process. Their works are informed by ancestral practices and challenge common assumptions about the world. Stones, avocados, volcanic rock, cacao, achiote, clay and mineral pigments both perform art and behave artistically. Several Eternities in a Day considers ideas around materials as records of the living and repositories of cosmic memory, Brownness and cosmopolitan Indigeneity. Refusing to speak from an ethnographic distance, the exhibition and its catalog instead propose an approach based on permeability"-- |
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| Item Description: | Published on the occasion of "Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials", organized and presented by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, April 5-August 23, 2026. Edited with foreword and text by Pablo José Ramírez. Text by Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Ticio Escobar, Jessi DiTillio. Poems by Rosa Chávez. Interviews by Pablo José Ramírez Artists include: Jackie Amézquita, Carmen Argote, Gabriel Chaile, Naomi Gamarra, Raven Halfmoon, Rose B. Simpson, Ayla Tavares, Gustavo Caboco, Patricia Domínguez Claro, Sky Hopinka, Santiago Yahuarcani, Raven Chacon. |
| Physical Description: | 279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781636811956 1636811957 |