An environment created and nurtured by Brooklyn-based artist Noah Baen, “Chloroplasmic Colonnade” will be resident at Safe-T-Gallery in Dumbo from September 14 to October 14th. The installation will contain both living and inorganic elements, gathered mostly from the streets and back lots of Brooklyn, and will reflect on both our spiritual and our scientific understandings of the natural, green world.
Arranged a bit like a cloister, the different elements of the piece will be centered on a chloroplastic oxygen generator, a prop from a basic botany course, which will be actively capturing light energy and releasing pure oxygen -- oxygen that will be captured and periodically released into the gallery. Fully cognizant of the differences between the controlled, air-conditioned environment of an art gallery and the rougher, more immediate world of the streets of Brooklyn, the installation will attempt to broaden our understanding of each.
Website: http://www.safetgallery.com/NoahBaen/ChloroplasmicWriteup.html
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