Enduring Amazon: Life and Afterlife in the Rainforest
A Rich Examination of the Amazon Rainforest and Its Delicate Interconnection With Our Lives
Enduring Amazon: Life and Afterlife in the Rainforest presents an emotionally-charged immersion in light, sound, and imagery that explores the delicate balance of life in the Amazon rainforest.
Anchored by a groundbreaking ultra-high-definition film from environmental photographer Richard Mosse, the group exhibition will also feature a multi-gallery soundtrack by award-winning composer Ben Frost, a new video and sound installation by Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, and a captivating living sculpture drawn from the forest’s basin by David Brooks.
Enduring Amazon offers a sequence of visual and aural operatic experiences that move from still imagery to sound-infused video, from life-based sculpture to color, light, and electronic music to create a mind-opening view into the Amazon—the mortal threat its collapse would mean to global ecosystems and Indigenous culture, as well as the breathtaking beauty, glory, and resilience of life that endures there today.
Free, no tickets required.
Please note: Some artworks in this exhibition contain sound and/or lighting effects, including loud booms. Viewing and listening discretion is advised.
Advertencia: algunas obras de arte en esta exhibición contienen efectos de iluminación y/o sonido, incluyendo fuertes estruendos. Se recomienda discreción del espectador.
Select works from the exhibition
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Richard Mosse
Mosse’s Broken Spectre is a 74-minute film depicting the scale and urgency of the Amazon rainforest’s continuing collapse through a dazzling array of photography techniques.
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Sayler/Morris
Artist-duo Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris present a newly commissioned, multi-channel immersive animation entitled Prophecy of the Butterflies that riffs on the Amazon’s remarkable proliferation of butterfly species.
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David Brooks
David Brooks’s living sculpture Lonely Loricariidae features nine unnamed, newly discovered armored catfish species, highlighting the evolutionary splendor of the Amazon basin and the complex and interdependent relationship between science and commerce.
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Ben Frost
Accompanying the exhibition will be sound and musical compositions by composer, sound artist, and stage director Ben Frost. In addition to scoring the entirety of Enduring Amazon, Frost will create a 65-foot-high light and sculptural experience in the Momentary’s Tower Gallery.
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Kate & Greg Schaffer