Bangers – HOT SPOT – Caring For a Burning World #021 (2021) by Rachel YounLa Galleria Nazionale
Rachel Youn, Bangers and Lifted
The plants agitated by machines in Rachel Youn’s wild moving sculptures seem to comment on this, as well as on genetic manipulation and the shift to cyborgs and robotisation.
Bangers – HOT SPOT – Caring For a Burning World #022 (2021) by Rachel YounLa Galleria Nazionale
How artistic practice can actively influence these issues?
Artists have a unique ability to forge new relationships to the age-old question of man vs. nature, using romantic research methodologies that tap into personal history and hopefulness to imagine a idea of the present and future.
Lifted – HOT SPOT – Caring For a Burning World #171 (2021) by Rachel YounLa Galleria Nazionale
How was it to confront with other artists in Hot Spot?
Artists continue a tradition of contemplating the relationship of humans and the planet we inhabit using methods that are not necessarily marred by political interest and devastating scientific fact.
Lifted – HOT SPOT – Caring For a Burning World #170 (2021) by Rachel YounLa Galleria Nazionale
What do you think is the main visitors' feeling in Hot Spot?
The exhibition works to provide expansive responses to current issues of the environment. Decentering a singular authoritative stance on a solution, the exhibition allows viewers to form their own relationship to nature.
Interview by Giulia Lotti. Photo by Adriano Mura.