Exhibition

LEGACY | Nancy Baker Cahill

4 Nov 2021 – 16 Dec 2021

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Monday
07:00 – 19:00
Tuesday
07:00 – 19:00
Wednesday
07:00 – 19:00
Thursday
07:00 – 19:00
Friday
07:00 – 19:00
Saturday
07:00 – 19:00
Sunday
07:00 – 19:00

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Tempelhofer Feld

Berlin
Berlin, Germany

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synthesis gallery is pleased to present Legacy by Nancy Baker Cahill, synthesis’ first public art show opening on November 4, 2021, in Tempelhofer Feld (Berlin) and on display until December 16, 2021.

About

Berlin has survived tumultuous change over the past century. The city has a distinct and multifaceted identity characterized by a history of cultural and political division, radical, trailblazing artists, calls for resistance, and an ongoing reshuffling of space and economies within the city. In Legacy, an original, animated, site-specific AR drawing in 360°, artist Nancy Baker Cahill aims to address the current threats of gentrification and climate change in Berlin while situating these challenges within the larger scope of the city’s past, present, and future. Gentrification poses large and small violence to community, to history, to culture and to the city at large. Systemic gentrification has shaped living conditions and human geography of Berlin, seen from the displacement in eastern districts after the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the increased development across the city, heightened in the past decade. Climate change simultaneously will transform the city yet again, causing an urban heat bubble effect, drought, and extreme weather. Certainly, both destabilizing systems have related effects: dismantling social structures and altering the cultural and social environment.


The artwork, originally commissioned by SXSW, illustrates the calamitous forces of dislocation and climate change by animating an abstracted tree as it twists, breaks apart, and coalesces. Formally the drawing transitions from organic
bark-like marks, to inorganic, metaphorically urban, glass and mirror fragments. Using original digital mark making to render organic forms underscores the artist's intention to highlight unnatural developments of all kinds. Accessed via smartphones and tablets, the monumental drawing remains invisible to the naked eye, and leaves no physical trace. Legacy emerged from Baker Cahill’s intention to realize the synthesis of ideas, technology, and art to transform awareness about the urgent and interrelated effects of inequality and human-centered decision making. The drawing attempts to push new media in uncharted directions, and prompt discoveries related to the (re)evolution of nature, and the accelerated consequences of human intervention and impact.


The exhibition is generously supported by the US Embassy in Berlin and is authorized by Grün Berlin.


Exhibition: November 4 – December 16, 2021
Private Tour: email to register, +49 176 325 10217
Venue: Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin

Before you visit:
• Using wifi, download and open the free 4th Wall app. Once the app is downloaded, wifi is not required to view the artworks on location.
• When downloading the app, allow all permissions. This will activate the audio components and allow for the full experience of the artworks. 4th Wall does NOT collect any user data.
• The app is compatible with iPhones 6 and above or Androids with ARCore (iOS11 or higher).


How to view the artwork:
• From the entrance in Columbiadamm or Oderstrasse, head west towards the airport hangar. The artwork is located nearby the info pavilion (red mark on the map). Once there, open the app and select “Coordinates” in the app. The app will search for the nearest artwork based on your location and direct you toward the artwork. Remember to look up, down and all around to find the piece!
• Use the camera icons on the right of the screen to record the experience. When prompted, allow 4th Wall to access your photos to save your recordings directly to your camera roll.
• Share your photos and recordings on any social media and tag @4thwallapp @synthesis.gallery

CuratorsToggle

George Vitale

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Nancy Baker Cahill

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synthesis gallery

synthesis gallery

Berlin, Germany

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