Mary Kelly - Dicere

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Dicere, 2014, on view for the first time at Art Basel, combines, in compressed lint, the satellite transmission of a drone target with a narrative based on the account of two witnesses, Zubair, 13 and Nabila, 9, who testified at a Congressional Hearing on Drone Strikes in Washington on October 29, 2013.
The strike, which killed their grandmother, took place in North Waziristan a year earlier.

Tiffany Chung

http://artradarjournal.com/2015/05/15/vietnams-tiffany-chung-explores-the-effects-of-disasters-in-new-york-exhibition-in-pictures/

Through beautifully detailed drawings of maps on vellum and paper, lightboxes and a multimedia installation comprising photographs, text, video and maps, Chung develops narratives that intertwine the documentary and the archival with the poetic and the utopian.

World history and personal memory are juxtaposed in a reflection of the artist’s long-term research into geographical shifts in countries traumatised by war, human destruction and natural disaster.
Within these contexts, Chung focuses on the growth, decline or disappearance of towns and cities, and explores related issues of urban development, environmental catastrophe and humanitarian crisis. The latter is also the focus of a series of works, part of her “Syrian Project”, that Chung presented in the Arsenale’s Central Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor.

For the artist, the social imaginaries that shape the shifting identities of a place are most effectively represented through assembled fragments that challenge the viewer to discern a didactic narrative. The artworks are outcomes yet also starting points within a larger project of psychogeographical inquiry. They are made legible only to a certain extent without extinguishing the poetic ambiguity of the objects and the environments they create.

Nidhal Chamek

Katie Paterson

Totality is a mirrorball made with images of nearly every solar eclipse documented by humankind. Totaling over 10,000 unique images, these eclipses come together to reflect the progression of an eclipse across the room – from total through to quarter and half eclipses – mirroring the sequence of the Sun eclipsed by the Moon.

Brandon Ballengee - Dying Tree

Uprooted trees are a common theme....

Sarah and Joseph Belknap

Hands holding meteorites