Alex Goad. MARS. 2013. Ceramic, marine concrete, and steel, each module 17.7 x 17.7 x 12.6 in. (45 x 45 x 32 cm). Installation view in ‘Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival’, the XXII Triennale di Milano, March 1, 2019–January 28, 2018. Courtesy Triennale di Milano, photo: Gianluca di Ioia.
‘Broken Nature’: exhibition at MoMA Celebrating design’s ability to offer powerful insights into the key issues of our age, The Museum of Modern Art presents ‘Broken Nature’ in its street-level galleries. November 21, 2020 – August 15, 2021.]]>
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The exhibition highlights the concept of “restorative design” and present objects and concepts that offer diverse strategies in the effort to help humans repair their relationship to the environments that they share—with other humans and with other species. A collaboration with the Triennale di Milano, “Broken Nature” was originally organized in 2019 as the main exhibition of the XXII Triennale, with a curatorial team composed of Paola Antonelli, Ala Tannir, Laura Maeran, and Erica Petrillo. Featuring approximately 45 works—some of them new acquisitions in the Museum’s collection and others loans—drawn from the more than 100 in the Milan installation, the MoMA chapter of “Broken Nature” explores the complex, interconnected systems humans inhabit, and the reparative roles design plays within these systems.
“Broken Nature” promotes the important role of creative practices in maintaining and strengthening our bonds with the complex natural and human-made realms, and in designing reparations when necessary, through objects, concepts, and new systems. The projects and designers selected for this installation, including Mustafa Ali Faruki, Aki Inomata, Alex Goad, Julia Lohmann, Christien Meindertsma, and Studio Swine, among others, demonstrate design’s inherent restorative potential.
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