Jes Fan

Candice Lin

Alan Michelson

Nour Mobarak

Claire Pentecost

Miriam Simun

Jenna Sutela

Kiyan Williams

Anicka Yi

MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge

MIT List Visual Arts Center

<div>Black text on white title wall reads “SYMBIONTS: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS AND THE BIOSPHERE” with show introduction. Work by Lin, Sutela, and Mobarak is in the background, reflected on the shiny concrete floor.&nbsp;</div>

Soil ingots stacked on light wooden tables frame the gallery with associated drawings hung in clusters. A box filled with soil and a large, crumbly death mask like face centers the gallery, a connected IV bag drips a dark brown liquid onto its eye.

Stack of soil ingots on a light wooden table in a corner is surrounded on either side by clusters of three prints.

A sculptural work featuring soil contained by a weathered steel box, a large, deathmask like face, and connected IV bag dripping a dark brown liquid occupies the center of the gallery floor. Framed prints line the back wall and a sculpture of soil ingots are on a wooden table on the left.

Close-up of 10 dark soil ingots, stacked on a light wood table with gold foil-covered glass tabletop.

Red ceramic vessel entangled with foamy mushrooms next to a black spritzer sits on a white cuboid pedestal. A circular print on square paper in dark frame is hung in top right.

Sculpture of a lion’s mane mushroom that resembles a white foamy substance and grows inside a bright red ceramic vessel with a loose woven composition and many openings sits on a pedestal next to a matte black plant sprayer.

A window installation of drips and smears of beeswax and flora, behind a geometric sculptural work in the center on a white platform. A smaller spherical sculpture sits on a white pedestal and a large rectangular sculpture is hung on the wall.

Three smooth rectangular artworks hang adjacent to a larger crusty work and spherical sculpture. A beige lattice-like piece centers the gallery.

Three light pink and cream-colored relief sculptures hung in a row, each with a rough textures surface and encased by rectangular steel frame.

An orange and white striped beach ball with mushrooms growing on the sides sits on a geometric white pedestal sits to the left of a crusty framed artwork made of various materials resembling dried dirt.

Beeswax and dried flora is smeared across a two-panel gallery window with yellow trees outside. It is reflected in the shiny concrete floors.

An irregular wooden sphere and a slumping, half-deflated beach ball with bold primary colors, each with fan-like fungus growth, sit on a white geometric pedestal.

A close-up of beeswax and dried flora encased in an acrylic square, suspended in front of a window smeared with similar materials. A tree with yellow leaves is visible outside.

A close-up of beeswax and dried flora smeared across the gallery window. A tree with yellow leaves is outside.

A blush-toned tubular sculpture made of varying layers and intersections coated in a waxy resin, with four glass blob-shaped sculptures hanging along the tubing.

In a dark room, a large hanging sculpture made of glass, algae, and water hung from above that resembles a spider, across from a table lit to display scientific documents. Adjacent is a two-channel video.

Detail view of a table with various controls, lit to display documents and scientific materials.

Two Plexiglas panels with engraved, overlapping ovals are bathed in red light and suspended to the left, adjacent to a panoramic video of wolves in a deep purple tint.

A large circle of pink sand is spread on the floor with blank gallery walls, fluorescent lighting, and a white bench in the back.

A cellar spider on a white gallery ceiling.

Two slim brown pedestal sculptures surrounded by a single-channel video and a backlit yellow installation inlaid into the wall.

A long, rectangular strip of backlit vintage glass bacteria slides inlaid into dark wall.

Two slim brown pedestal sculptures with side openings across each top, with small laser-cut glass sculptures nested inside. Behind them is a narrow backlit installation of vintage bacteria slides set into the wall.

<div>A white rectangular box with three clear sides contains bright green algae clinging to a web of a white 3D printed bubble-like armature.&nbsp;</div>

Symbionts: Contemporary Artists And The BiosphereMIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge

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Symbionts: Contemporary Artists And The Biosphere
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge