BIGERT & BERGSTRÖM
The artist duo Mats Bigert & Lars Bergström, renowned for their pioneering exploration of climate breakdown and environmental sustainability over decades, seamlessly weave together humanity, nature, and technology with wit and critical insight. Their large-scale installations dissect complex social and scientific issues in visually captivating ways.
The installation Geode (Wrecked Wrecking Ball) builds upon and repurposes past artworks, featuring a monumental broken black sphere filled with dried clay fragments. This wrecked ball indicates the deteriorated state of urgent global issues, resembling a demolition wrecking ball.
Adjacent to the Geode (Wrecked Wrecking Ball), are five ice-shard sculptures titled Crystal Forests. The work is inspired by J.G. Ballard‘s The Crystal World, which portrays a world where nature crystallizes and turn into precious stones due to a disease. Those who try to harvest the newfound riches get caught within crystallized shells
Through their career, Bigert & Bergström have produced and created art projects ranging from large-scale sculptures and installations to performance and film. Often with a conceptual edge, the core of their work is placed right in the junction between humanity, nature and technology. Recent solo-exhibitions include The Broken Greenhouse, Skellefteå Konsthall, 2023; Timefulness, Acoustic Laboratory, Lund University, 2023; Weather Conditions, Galerie Leu, Munich, 2023; Inside the Weather – a Synaptic Battlefield, Nässjö Konsthall, 2022; Hurricane Party, Norrtälje Konsthall 2022; Co2 Lock-In, Copenhagen 2021.
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