Superflex Dive-In
Palm Springs / United States / 2019
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Commissioned for the Desert X the theater — called “Dive In” — is an installation by the Danish artist collective Superflex and forms part of their larger project “Deep Sea Minding.”
“Dive In” responds to the prospect of rising sea levels by imagining a future in which coastal cities are submerged, and their inhabitants are fish.
For the desert installation, Superflex used one product of that research — an aluminum foam whose coloring and spongelike holes resemble coral — to build the drive-in, itself a reference to the car culture that contributes to global warming. Shot during the expedition, the footage on screen lets viewers, as Mr. Nielsen put it, “see what the fish see.”
Superflex Dive-In
Photos by Lance Gerber
Artist Rasmus Nielsen
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Commissioned for the Desert X the theater — called “Dive In” — is an installation by the Danish artist collective Superflex and forms part of their larger project “Deep Sea Minding.” “Dive In” responds to the prospect of rising sea levels by imagining a future in which coastal cities are submerged, and their inhabitants are fish. For the desert installation, Superflex used one product of that research — an aluminum foam whose coloring and...
- Year 2019
- Work finished in 2019
- Status Completed works
- Type Exhibitions /Installations
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