Josh Kline’s Climate Change is both an exhibition and a total work of art—an ambitious, immersive suite of science-fiction installations that imagines a future sculpted by ruinous climate crisis and the ordinary people destined to inhabit it.
Begun in 2018 and produced in sections over the last five years, Kline’s eponymous project was brought together for the first time for this exhibition. It mobilizes sculpture, moving image work, photography, and ephemeral materials to completely transform the galleries of MOCA | The Museum of Contemporary Art Grand Avenue.
In this vision, which could be called dystopian but is, in truth, terrifyingly near, a catastrophic sea-level rise has inundated the world’s coasts, unleashing a flood of hundreds of millions traumatized refugees.
What happens in a world where the systems built to sustain and extend capitalist enterprise and global hegemony melt down their own foundations? Kline opens the door to such a future, inviting us to place ourselves within it and consider the rear view.
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