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For the exhibition at Milliken Gallery in Stockholm, Bigert & Bergström has created an elaborate three-part, divided-room installation that addresses the elusiveness of scientific truth. Using the weather as its vantage point, the exhibition focuses on the prognosis and forecasting of our climatic future and how these future scenarios have changed over time. The main work in the exhibition is titled Tomorrow’s Weather, Stockholm. It consists of a cluster of atmospheric molecules radiating different lights and colors depending on tomorrow’s weather forecast. Connected to the Swedish Weather Forecast Bureau (SMHI), the work, updated every hour, uses different light scenarios to depict tomorrow’s weather—i.e., overcast, sunny, snowy, etc. In the middle of the molecules hangs a single globe that signals the temperature by moving up and down and changing between blue and red. As the work is always postponed one day into the future and constantly transforms itself, it reaches beyond the contemporary and instead manifests itself as a futurespective work of art. In the central room, a series of Glass Sketches depict future weather scenarios as well as past weather patterns that have had a major impact on history. On the floor, the sculpture Prognosis presents a timeline extending into an obscure future where the weather and the climate have changed so much that they can no longer be imagined. A snowman-like figure has melted into a lump of flesh, indicating a time when climate mutations have transformed culture and humanity as we know it beyond recognition. The final works in the exhibition are two Inverted Space Molecules that document the classic Botanical Garden and the more extreme Tropical Island, artificial pleasure domes located just outside Berlin. The spherical photographs connect the different rooms via a molecular structure that offers the viewer the possibility of visually taking in the depicted places in their entirety. In both works, the clash between artificial, constructed nature and real nature is central. |
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