The climate emergency has inspired a raft of disquieting art, and opinion is divided as to whether it encourages action or despair. But some artists and venues are showcasing a more optimistic vision of tomorrow’s world.
In these global art exhibitions you can visit now, artists reckon with climate change by visualizing the air, sculpting the fluid and recreating a preserved underwater zone to help us process climate anxiety.
What does a pencil have to say about the future? What does a song, a smell, a coyote, or a lush Haitian garden teach us about how to live in a world in flux? Artists are examining these questions as they try to make sense of climate change.
Recently, the Pew Research Center found that over 66 per cent of Canadians are not only concerned about the climate crisis, but willing to alter how they live to help fight it.
