2024/09/27

Emily Watlington Sees Climate Crisis Culpability in Olafur Eliasson Works

● 27/09/2024
“Olafur Eliasson’s recent and more spectacular work may be the product of this frustration, of seeing so clearly the change that has come and yet feeling so acutely our inability to respond.”
– Critic Emily Watlington, seeing cultural paralysis in Olafur Eliasson artworks. Reading pro-climate messaging in The Glacier Melt Series 1999/2019 (2019) and Adrift Compass (2019), and other works, Watlington observes that for both the Icelandic artist and viewers, “recognizing the effects of climate change is not the same as stopping it.”
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