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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20250926
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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/venice-biennale-show-everlasting-plas
 tics-comes-home-to-clevelands-spaces-gallery/
SUMMARY:Venice Biennale Show "Everlasting Plastics" Comes Home to Cleveland
 's SPACES Gallery
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFri 9/26 @ 6-9PM\nIt was quite a coup when SPACES gallery d
 irector Tizziana Baldenebro and moCa curator Lauren Leving were chosen to 
 curate the U.S. Pavilion at 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale\, which ran 
 from May 20 through November 23. Their exhibition\, Everlasting Plastics\,
  focused on “the ways [plastics] both shape and erode contemporary ecolo
 gies\, economies\, and the built environment\,” as interpreted by five d
 iverse artists from Massachusetts\, Illinois\, Michigan and Cleveland\, Oh
 io.\nThe artists who created site-specific installations included Xavi Lai
 da Aguirre\, assistant professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Inst
 itute of Technology\; Detroit-based designer Simon Anton\; Ang Li\, assi
 stant professor in the School of Architecture at Northeastern University\;
  Norman Teague\, assistant professor of industrial design in the School o
 f Design at the University of Illinois Chicago\; and Cleveland sculptor/co
 nceptual artist Lauren Yeager.\nObviously not many Clevelanders could mak
 e the trip to Venice to see the show. But Everlasting Plastics did have a 
 run last year at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Now it’s comi
 ng home: it opens at SPACES gallery this weekend.\n“Each work considers 
 our relationship with plastics\, encouraging discussion about the ways the
  material both shapes and erodes contemporary ecologies\, economies\, and 
 the built environment\, while also suggesting potential alternatives and n
 ecessary re-imaginings for the ways in which plastics are deployed\,” sa
 ys the press release.. “Rather than offering a straightforward critique\
 , Everlasting Plastics considers the material's cultural pervasiveness a
 nd the entangled\, often paradoxical connection we share with it.”\nThe 
 show opens at SPACES with a free\, public reception on Friday September 26
 . It will be on view through January 17.\nspacescle.org/everlasting-plasti
 cs\n\n\n\n[mappress mapid="3922"]\n
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