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The Arts Intel Report

Allora & Calzadilla: Graft

May 26 – Dec 1, 2019
Krymsky Val, 9, стр.4, Moskva, Russia, 119049

Lushly littering Garage Square in Moscow, thousands of faux petals, the fragile yellow flowers of Caribbean Roble Amarillo trees, have fallen under Russian trees of another species. A spectral reminder of a blossoming that never occurred, “Graft” calls attention to both deforestation and dwindling biodiversity due to climate change. Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, artists based in Puerto Rico, crafted the flowers as a call to environmental, political, and artistic action. —C.J.F.

Calzadilla Hope Hippo, 2005; photograph by Giorgio Boata