ART+ECOLOGY is conceived in collaboration with artists from around the globe, whose work revolves around ecological subjects. Each artist will be taking our platform over for a week, illustrating ecological causes they care about in relation to their practice.
As we all recognise the detrimental reality of the pandemic, contemporary society is now, more than ever, countered by overwhelming scientific evidence prognosing the devastating outcomes of a climate catastrophe.
There are more nations than ever before turning towards greener alternatives, and there has never been a better opportunity to pressure governments in reforming the post-crisis economy into a greener and sustainable model.
At HOXTON 253, we are dedicated to keep the dialogue going by actively promoting artistic voices that challenge the current untenable system and push for a healthier, sustainable future. We believe that the arts have a great potential to help turn the tide.
As we all recognise the detrimental reality of the pandemic, contemporary society is now, more than ever, countered by overwhelming scientific evidence prognosing the devastating outcomes of a climate catastrophe.
There are more nations than ever before turning towards greener alternatives, and there has never been a better opportunity to pressure governments in reforming the post-crisis economy into a greener and sustainable model.
At HOXTON 253, we are dedicated to keep the dialogue going by actively promoting artistic voices that challenge the current untenable system and push for a healthier, sustainable future. We believe that the arts have a great potential to help turn the tide.
Maurice Mbikayi
22 - 27 March
22 - 27 March
Position D’attaque 2, 2016, Maurice Mbikayi. Image courtesy of the artist
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Maurice Mbikayi’s work deals with history, technology and ecology, the impacts of contemporary technology on humanity.
He refers to his own experiences and developments of fashion and access to information technology in his home country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He collects discarded computer parts, deconstructs and recontextualizes them into mixed media collages and sculptures, combining them with other materials including fiberglass bandages and found objects.In his photographs, his body acts as a ‘prosthetic Identity’, symbolically representing his experiences and anxieties about the virtual world as well as electronic waste, and the implications for human beings and ecology involved in mining and dumping in Africa. He graduated in Graphic Design and Visual communication from the Academies des Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa and holds an MA Fine Arts degree (with distinction) from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. |
John Sabraw
15 - 20 March
15 - 20 March
Image courtesy of John Sabraw
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John Sabraw is an artist, activist and environmentalist whose paintings, drawings and collaborative installations are produced in an eco conscious manner. Many of Sabraw’s projects are in collaboration with scientists, and one of his current collaborations involves creating paint from iron oxide extracted in the process of remediating polluted streams.
Sabraw’s art is in numerous collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, the Elmhurst Museum in Illinois, Emprise Bank, Bank of America, and Accenture Corp. He is a Professor of Art at Ohio University where he chairs the Painting + Drawing program, and Board Advisor at Scribble Art Workshop in New York. He has most recently been featured in TED, Smithsonian, New Scientist, London, and Great big Stories. |
Alan McFetridge
8 - 13 March
8 - 13 March
Larch (Larix laricina), 2016, Alan McFetridge. Image courtesy of the artists
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Alan McFetridge is a New Zealand born, UK based photographer.
He draws on his ancestry of farming, formative years in rural New Zealand and adult life in London to bring attention to the impact of dispossession and the geography that surrounds it. Beginning with local events in 2012, the potential for epic displacement came into the frame after studying the impacts of wildfire in 2016 from a Royal Photographic Society Bursary. Since then he has become dedicated to explaining the dual capacity of fire, colonialism's role in the Climate Crisis and acknowledging our role in the burning. His project is layered in meaning and supported by substantial research with the considerable challenge of logistics of making work around the world. In April he is on the Climates of Colonialism Panel at the Association for Art History Annual Conference. His fire project has received 5 nominations for the 2021 Prix Pictet - ninth edition of the Prix Pictet, the world’s leading prize for photography and sustainability. |
Liana Nigri
1 - 6 March
1 - 6 March
Contato, 2018, site specific installation, Liana Nigri.
Image courtesy of the artist
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Liana Nigri is a Brazilian visual artist deeply interested in BioArt holding a masters degree in 'Design for Textile Futures' at Central Saint Martins. She is a researcher at the postgraduate program in Contemporary Studies of the Arts at UFF (Universidade Federal Fluminense), where she investigates the idea of 'Contact sculptures: body-matter' where the artist uses the sculpture making as an intimate gesture of hearing the female body.
She has been taking part of art residencies annually, such as 'LabVerde' in the Amazon Forest, 'From the Laboratory to the Studio' in SVA-New York, 'In Context' in Romania, in the ecovillage 'Terra Una' in Serra da Mantiqueira and ‘Despina’ in Rio de Janeiro. Her research calls attention to the presence of women’s bodies and the Earth as a fertile force, a careful observation of marks that show traces of time, experiences or traumas. |
Alexandra Lerman
22 - 27 February
22 - 27 February
Tree Time, 2020, video still, Alexandra Lerman.
Image courtesy of the artist
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Alexandra Lerman is an artist based in New York and Saint Petersburg.
Her work interrogates systems governing the post-industrial landscape of immaterial labor through photography, sculpture, video, and performance. Her practice is thematically rooted in historical moments wherein natural ecosystems, language, bodily gesture, and expressive freedom come into conflict with corporate and governmental systems of control - such as agricultural and technical innovations, copyright law, and the built environment. |
Alice Bucknell
15 - 20 February
15 - 20 February
Welcome to Nutropix, 2020, video still, Alice Bucknell. Image courtesy of the artist
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Alice Bucknell is an American artist and writer based in London.
She uses speculative fiction to address contemporary ideas of technological utopias and the role of architecture in contributing to global inequality and ecological destruction. She participates in international exhibitions, symposiums, and residencies, most recently at Ars Electronica with KÖNIG GALERIE, White Cube, Annka Kultys Gallery, the Canadian Center for Architecture, and Serpentine Galleries. She serves as a guest critic at international design and architecture schools including the Architectural Association and the Royal College of Art in London. Her writing appears regularly in art, architecture and design publications including Elephant, Frieze, Kaleidoscope, Mousse, PIN-UP and The Architectural Review. She studied Anthropology and Visual Art at the University of Chicago and Critical Practice at the Royal College of Art in London. |
ART + ECOLOGY Limited Edition Prints
The limited edition print sales directly support the artists and raise funds for their chosen charity/organisation and support the non-profit programme of the gallery.