I already feel the frustration of missing out

Seems super early for that, no?

No clue what this is all about.

Could be a print release, I got told there should be another edition by the end of the year a couple of months back.

If I can buy somebody an extra lottery ticket, please let me know :-)

Maybe the NYC exhibition is pushed forward?

Hopefully it's not as short notice as Paris

My guess is something with the environment in focus... maybe a floating plastic island? Would also make a nice sculpture... with a lighthouse on top. Just looking through his latest Insta posts and there were quite often lighthouses...

I am so excited but I don't know why yet!!!

Those details are not released yet

May have to make a trip to NYC for this one. Have never been able to source a print at cost, and since i'm in sustainability these have always been on my list. Forest and Heavy Sea being my favorites.

LAND ADRIFT


Almost one year to date since the unprecedented “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice," a letter issued and signed by 15,000 scientists from around the world in November 2017, Pejac has decided to present his latest thought-provoking intervention Land Adrift. Once again reaching towards the list of his recurring motifs and imagery, this time he placed an old-fashioned water well in the open seas of the Atlantic. Installed offshore from his native Cantabria in northern Spain, the piece is reflecting the artist's worry about the land and sea that are tirelessly going adrift.



This motif was last seen at his latest solo exhibition where the very same stone well was installed atop a water barge moored on the Seine in the heart of Paris. Continuously working towards pointing out at the frightening pace at which humans are irreversibly affecting the planet, Pejac once again stepped away from his easel and studio to create this surprising, reality-twisting intervention. Presenting another one of the "unlikely but theoretically possible" scenarios, a repeated concept in his practice, the universal symbol of a healthy community and the literal source of life was placed in the middle of high seas as a disturbing mirage of a post-apocalyptic future. With ocean waves hitting it, birds flying around and curiously examining it, and big industrial ships passing close by (all of which are recurring motifs in Spanish artist's oeuvre), the alarming unedited footage capturing this piece in situ continues his video work introduced with the short movie Heavy Sea from 2016.



Suggesting a range of different interpretations, probably the most obvious one is the warning about the rise of the water levels, one of the most evident outcomes of climate change, as well as the lack of access to clean water. With both of them being included in the warning letter as the key risks facing humans today, along with population growth, deforestation, and widespread species extinction, these kind of works are visual backdrops and attention capturing images to the expert's warnings:



"If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know." - an excerpt from the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice".

bit weird that

I really like it myself, and read into what the future world may look like if we don't start acting more responsibly. Bravo Pejac.

I'm not quite sure how chucking a plastic well in the sea is helping things