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Title Urgent Calls to Action: How 'The Recent' Unveils the Depths of Our Environmental Crisis Media name/outlet Elephant Magazine Media type Other Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 23/11/23 Description
The Recent grapples with one of the most urgent and pivotal matters of our era—the climate crisis. Bringing together video, installation, textiles and a daily memorial ceremony to mark wildfires taking place across the world today, the show calls for a radical shift in perception and priorities. Curating past exhibitions on the Anthropocene and nuclear waste burial, Talbot Rice Gallery Director Tessa Giblin recognises the transformative power that artists hold in reshaping perspectives on critical issues. “It does seem to me to be the way in which we as a cultural community and democracies can develop to be able to make the decisions that we need for the future,” she tells me. In ‘The Recent’, artists Eglė Budvytytė, Helen Cammock, Dorothy Cross, Regina de Miguel, Mikala Dwyer, Nicholas Mangan, Angelica Mesiti, Otobong Nkanga, Katie Paterson, Micol Roubini and Simon Starling collectively assert a stance on the environmental crisis, advocating for collaborative efforts to halt the destruction of our planet.Producer/Author Sofia Hollström Persons Tessa Giblin