ART PROJECTS

The Weight of What We Make gathers artists whose work responds to the material and systemic dimensions of the climate crisis, particularly industrial and post-consumer waste — participants are invited to explore related topics such as overproduction, waste accumulation in landscapes and oceans, water pollution from industrial sources (such as dyeing processes, synthetic fibers and microplastics), hazardous materials in consumer products, and the broader implications of consumption, global dynamics of production, resource management; and questions about resource extraction, disposal and the end of an object’s life — i.e., what happens when items are discarded or reach the end of their use.  

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Artists reflect on these systemic problems - making visible the physical and environmental consequences of production and consumption and disposal systems and revealing how different parts of the world participate in or are affected by these cycles. The exhibition aims to expose the damage, show how harm is produced and distributed, and ask direct questions: who gets the trash? who consumes? who produces? How are different places and people implicated in these cycles? We want to make visible the physical and environmental consequences of production and consumption systems while leaving room for artistic approaches that reveal, provoke and hold accountable.