'Allora & Calzadilla: KLIMA' at Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, Spain
13 June 2024
From 20 June, Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao, Bilbao Society and Contemporary Culture Centre present the exhibition 'Allora & Calzadilla: KLIMA' featuring recent work by artist duo Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, curated by Fernando Pérez, Director of Azkuna Zentroa. The exhibition brings together a number of Allora & Calzadilla’s most important works from the last decade, shown for the first time in Bilbao, and follows the Centre's programming theme highlighting climate and environmental emergency through art.
Allora & Calzadilla have developed an experimental body of work that addresses the entanglements between history, ecology, and geopolitics using a multiplicity of artistic media that encompasses performance, sculpture, sound, video, photography, and painting. 'KLIMA' highlights the importance of the artists' sculptural-performance based works to their career trajectory, a number of which will be regularly staged throughout the course of the exhibition, in collaboration with local musicians.
The concept of 'KLIMA', which dates back to ancient Greece, signifies an inclination towards the sun. The works in this ambitious, open-ended chronology engage with the solar orientation taken by all life forms. Each artwork in the exhibition can be thought of as a unique climate that, when brought together as a whole, creates a cosmic entanglement – travelling as far back as 4 billion years ago, all the way to the present day. This presentation highlights the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of Allora & Calzadilla’s practice, as well as themes that run throughout their oeuvre: geological time and the evolutionary history of life on Earth; the postcolonial condition, environmental justice, climate debt, geopolitics, and energy resources.
Find further information via Azkuna Zentroa–Alhóndiga Bilbao.
Image: Allora & Calzadilla, The Great Silence, 2014, Three-channel HD video installation, 16 minutes 22 seconds © Allora & Calzadilla. Installation photography by Carlos Avendaño.
