Luciana Abait: A Letter to the Future | Zoom
7000 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90038
Wednesday, June 23 at 12:00 PM 12:00 PM
Ends Jun 23, 2021
VIRTUAL EVENT Los Angeles-based artist Luciana Abait creates pieces with visually elegant and timeless design, and an invitation to find underlying meaning and intricate connections to our fraught and quickly evolving existence on earth. Abait’s current solo exhibition, “A Letter to the Future” – featuring photo-based, hand-embellished works from her “Iceberg Series” – is installed at LAX as part of The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and Los Angeles World Airport’s art program, which seeks to humanize the travel experience. The installation activates a strikingly beautiful interplay with the light-filled, airy architecture of the Terminal 7 gallery. On June 23rd at 12 noon, Luciana Abait and LAX art program director Sarah Cifarelli will conduct a walkthrough of, and conversation about, the artist’s vision about the future of our planet. To join: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b3lAeIJTQUC5a0eyOug-bA. For a detailed look at the exhibition: http://www.lucianaabait.com/ The Iceberg series comprises photo-based, manipulated landscapes with a message underscoring the urgent need for corrective actions to halt human-kind’s destabilization of our planet. Within these frosty and inhospitable terrains, Abait inserts supernatural colors and fragments of civilization – such as theater seats, billboards, and ferris wheels – to produce a surreal yet eerily recognizable dreamscape. The presence of these out-of-place elements suggests issues of adaptation, assimilation, isolation and displacement, and serves as a reflection on the intrusion of humans on the natural world—even in the most remote places on earth, similar to what the pandemic has wrought.