Artwork brings attention to the urgency of climate change
Abstract
Hosted in Venice and Switzerland, it's part of the exhibition called PERSONAL STRUCTURES curated by the European Cultural Centre during the Venice Biennale 2022. In Italy, Exculpatio presents these "Pixels" in an always changing arrangement of the shape, which invites the public to join the conversation. Initially, Exculpatio looked at empathizing with the need for "a profound understanding of nature as the operating system of the planet," according to a press release. In the 2020 iteration of Exculpatio, the project changed shape to explore how the ways of nature have always unsettled humans. Exculpatio evolved to look at the urgency of the climate crisis. Exculpatio created a performance element of the exhibit called "The 80 Pixels' Performance" to create a tribute to adaptation. As the people who carried the blocks across Venice created their first impromptu pixel arrangement in Venice, the same pieces were virtually assembled into the two rectangular monoliths in Switzerland.