How Climate Change Has Affected the Art World by Alison Siegel
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limate change is a reality in our daily lives, and it is a force well beyond the control of any single person. The rising global temperature is a condition that affects all our lives, and it is
paralyzing, overwhelming, and anxiety-inducing. Art can be a place of comfort, an expression that consoles and illuminates. Artist Pannaphan Yodmanee can guide us through the disruptional experiences of loss and pain
to arrive at moments of clarity. The Thai artist’s 2017 mixed media sculptural installation Aftermath is a collection of eleven large fragmented concrete slabs. Each slab has a story: some have grids of
Art by Alison Siegel
THE BULLETIN -
38 - nov/dec 2021