For his largest exhibition to date, Pedro Wirz designs an immersive installation filled with sculptures that draw equally on organic material and the consumer world. Taken as a whole, they transform the Brazilian-Swiss artist’s interest in cultural history, science, craft and folklore into a commentary on our current environmental crisis that is both fantastic and sobering.
The works in the first room serve as an allegory for a greed-driven planet choking on an environmental crisis, but also as a warning against the inconsistency of “progress.” This sets the tone for the exhibition, which features a wide range of materials and crafts used to conjure a world which, on the one hand, looks for untouched nature and, on the other hand, desires technical “advancements.” A world which strives for ecological responsibility, but also hip branded coffee and that latest digital device.