Art responds where society fails

Six current exhibitions contest society’s short-sighted responses to climate change, squandered water resources, and living hard in our times.
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Samuel Gratacap, Untitled, from the series Empire, 2014 © Samuel Gratacap; courtesy the artist

Desiring to broaden awareness and activate change, artists have long fought for social justice and environmental awareness through their making.

But in the current climate, where the world’s problems have spiraled into “the normal” rather than the “warning at the edges”, it has become increasingly, urgently important that artists tell those stories.

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