Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice
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Part of Getty’s region-wide initiative PST ART: Art and Science Collide, the Hammer presents Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, organized by guest co-curators Glenn Kaino and Mika Yoshitake. The exhibition considers environmental art practices that address the climate crisis and anthropogenic disasters and their inescapable intersection with issues of equity and social justice. Breath(e) features works by more than 20 artists, including works by Mel Chin, Ron Finley, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Garnett Puett, and Lan Tuazon, commissioned specially for this exhibition.
Breath(e) was conceived during the height of the global COVID-19 pandemic and America’s racial reckoning in 2020, and as such explores pressing issues related to the ethics of climate justice, while proposing pragmatic and philosophical approaches to spur discussion and resolution. The exhibition strives to challenge and deconstruct polarized political attitudes surrounding climate justice in America and offers new perspectives around land and indigenous rights of nature.
NOTICE: LIVE HONEYBEES ON PREMISES
Garnett Puett’s sculpture contains live honeybees. Visitors should be aware of the bees’ presence and be cautious when viewing the sculpture. While the bees are fully contained in the sculpture’s housing, their presence may attract additional bees in the outdoor space around the museum and in the museum’s courtyard.
Garnett Puett’s sculpture contains live honeybees. Visitors should be aware of the bees’ presence and be cautious when viewing the sculpture. While the bees are fully contained in the sculpture’s housing, their presence may attract additional bees in the outdoor space around the museum and in the museum’s courtyard.
Watch the bees at work via our live Bee Cam!
Artists
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Brandon Ballengée |
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Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane -
![Painting of a yellow-orange fish]()
Brandon Ballengée, MIA Highfin Blenny, 2020Deepwater Horizon source crude oil, Taylor/MC20 source crude, contaminated marshland sediment (oil, anaerobic bacteria, iron oxide), and COREXIT 9500A (dispersant) on paper. 22 ½ × 32 in. (57.2 × 81.3 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York -
![Model of a town, suspended from the ceiling]()
Tiffany Chung, stored in a jar: monsoon, drowning fish, color of water, and the floating world, 2010–11Plexiglas, wood veneer, plastic, aluminum, paint, steel, cable, foam, copper wire. 236 ¼ × 118 1/8 in. (600 × 300 cm). Post Vidai. Courtesy of the artist -
![A Black woman and girl drink water from a hose]()
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Zion Taking Her First Sip of Water from the Atmospheric Water Generator with Her Mother Shea Cobb on North Saginaw Street between East Marengo Avenue and East Pulaski Avenue, Flint, Michigan, 2019Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta. 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm). © LaToya Ruby Frazier; courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery -
![A Black man holds a "Free Water" sign above his head]()
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Moses West Holding a “Free Water” Sign on North Saginaw Street between East Marengo Avenue and East Pulaski Avenue, Flint, Michigan, 2019Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta. 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm). © LaToya Ruby Frazier; courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery -
![Artwork resembling a solar eclipse]()
Ryoji Ikeda, point of no return, 2018DLP projector, computer, speakers, paint, HMI lamp. Dimensions variable. Concept/Composition: Ryoji Ikeda. Programming: Tomonaga Tokuyama. Photo: Takeshi Asano; © Ryoji Ikeda; courtesy of Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art -
![Gallery view of a multi-media art installation]()
ikkibawiKrrr, Seaweed Story, 2022Single-channel video, HD, sound, 5:22 min., basalt, MDF, acrylic paint, bond etc., 8 pieces of small houses, dimensions variable -
![Installation of video screens suspended around a rotunda]()
Jin-me Yoon, Turning Time (Pacific Flyways), 202218-channel video installation. 9:33 to 15:23 min. Installation view, Jin-me Yoon: About Time, Vancouver Art Gallery, October 15, 2022–March 5, 2023. Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery; courtesy of the artist -
![Image of a crystalline structure]()
Michael Joo, Danil Krivoruchko, Snark.art, a growth generation of OG:CR 12, 2021–© Michael Joo, Danil Krivoruchko, and Snark.art -
![A silicone mouth covered in ice crystals]()
Xin Liu, The Mothership, detail , 2023Silicone, bronze, aluminum, customized cooling system. 36 x 51 x 3 in. (91.4 x 129.5 x 7.6 cm). Courtesy of the Artist and Make Room, Los Angeles. Photo by Daniel Greer -
![Painting of a girl holding a sign reading "Skolstrejk for Klimatet"]()
Yoshitomo Nara, School Strike for Climate, 2019Acrylic on canvas. 47 1/4 × 43 5/16 in. (120 × 110 cm). Photo: Keizo Kioku; courtesy of the artist, Yoshitomo Nara Foundation -
![Tapestry and sculptural works in a gallery]()
Otobong Nkanga, Steel to Rust, 2016Steel, felt, glass. Tapestry: 87 3/8 × 120 1/2 in. (222 × 306.1 cm); overall dimensions variable. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchased through the Board of Advisors Acquisition Fund. Composite photograph of two installation images. Foreground: installation view, Otobong Nkanga: The Encounter That Took a Part of Me, Nottingham Contemporary, October 15, 2016–January 15, 2017. Photo: Stuart Whipps; courtesy of the artist. Image of Steel to Rust tapestry on wall: installation view, Otobong Nkanga: When Looking across the Sea, Do You Dream?, Villa Arson, Nice, June 12–September 19, 2021. Photo: Jean-Christophe Lett -
![Woven image of an astronomical shape]()
Sarah Rosalena, Exit Point, 2019Cotton yarn, training set: Blue Marble image from Apollo 17 (1972) and Black Hole M87 image from Event Horizon Telescope (2019). 36 × 51 1/4 in. (91.4 × 130.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist. -
![Installation of video screens in the shape of a Native American war shirt]()
Bently Spang, War Shirt #6—Waterways, 2017Television, digital stills, steel, video players, cabling, ethernet bridge, wood. 254 × 108 × 48 in. (670.7 × 274.4 × 122 cm). Bently Spang and Mountain Time Arts. Installation view, Wetlands, WaterWorks 2017, Mountain Time Arts, Dry Creek Schoolhouse, Belgrade, Montana, June 2017. Photo: Mary Ellen Strom -
![Black plinth with an undulating surface]()
Mika Tajima, New Humans II, 2022Generative algorithm using machine learning (GAN, T-SNE) and fluid simulation (Navier Stokes), user profile data caches, Ferrofluid, custom electromagnet matrix, custom PCB control system, computer, steel, aluminum, fluoroelastomer. 48 1/2 × 26 7/8 × 26 7/8 in. (123.2 × 68.3 × 68.3 cm). Installation view, Mika Tajima: Spectral, Taro Nasu, Tokyo, May 21–June 18, 2022. Photo: Yasushi Ichikawa; © Mika Tajima; courtesy of Taro Nasu, Tokyo -
![Sculpture in the shape of a dead tree]()
Clarissa Tossin, Rising Temperature Casualty (Prunus persica, home garden, Los Angeles), 2022Silicone, pigment, tree bark. 126 × 48 × 58 in. (320 × 121.9 × 147.3 cm). Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA. Purchased with funds provided by the Contemporary Council, 2023.005.01. Photo: Wes Magyar; courtesy of MCA Denver -
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Zheng Mahler, Bubalus Bubalis, 14-40,000hz, 2021Sound sculpture, binaural microphone, water speaker, single-channel video. Dimensions variable. Photo: Sun Shi; courtesy UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice is organized by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and guest curated by Glenn Kaino and Mika Yoshitake with Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow, PST Fellow.
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice is made possible through lead grants from Getty as part of their PST Art: Art & Science Collide initiative.
The exhibition is presented in partnership with Conservation International.
Major support is provided by Alice and Nahum Lainer, Eugenio Lopez Alonso, and the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund. Generous support is provided by VIA Art Fund, The Offield Family Foundation, the Fran & Ray Stark Foundation, and The Rhonda S. Zinner Foundation and Jonathan Segal. Additional support is provided by Michael Silver and Amara and Alexander Hastings.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts
Media sponsorship is provided by LAist
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice is among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. Returning in September 2024 with its latest edition, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, this landmark regional event explores the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art
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