Brandon Ballengée participates in Breath(e) at Hammer Museum
Brandon Ballengée
MIA Highfin Blenny, 2020
Mixed media with Deepwater Horizon source crude oil; Taylor/MC20 source crude; contaminated marshland sediment with oil; anaerobic bacteria and iron oxide; and COREXIT 9500A (dispersant) on Arches hot press watercolor paper.
27 x 38.5 in.
Brandon Ballengée participates in Breath(e) at Hammer Museum
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice
September 14, 2024 – January 5, 2025
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 equity and social justice issues. 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 on land and indigenous rights of nature.