Visiting De Menil in Houston, seeing Allora & Cadzadilla
Specters of Noon – Allora & Catzadilla
(Till Jun 20, 2021 )
(Allora & Calzadilla, Graft, 2019, paint on PVC, photo by Fung Lin Hall)
In Graft, thousands of yellow blossoms, cast from the flowers of roble amarillo tress, an oak species native to the Caribbean, appear as though a wind has swept them actress the gallery floor.
Graft alludes to the environmental changes that have been set in motion
through the interlocking effects of colonial exploitation and climate change.
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a performer reads a newspaper on the back of a mud sculpture of a hippopotamus, created by Puerto Rico-based artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, at the arts Biennale in Venice.