Artist John Gerrard’s new NFT series confronts the climate crisis with stark depictions of ‘future deserts’:
Twenty years ago, John Gerrard photographed an oil spill off the coast of Ireland. He’s been fixated on the politics, geographies, and aesthetics of hydrocarbons ever since.,” the Irish artist cast the outline of countries as oil slicks adrift on the world’s ocean. The 196 NFTs were at once beguiling and unsettling, the allure of their iridescent sheen undercut by the catastrophes they depicted.
Its visuals, however, are starker, its messaging blunter. If the oil spills teetered towards abstraction, the flags of smoke, which stand exposed in dull landscapes of endless sand, are representational and offer no such relief. Gone also is the luxury of high-resolution with the entire project adding up to 112 kilobytes in size.
The images are austere, the idea of a country claiming an utterly arid territory absurd. And that’s the point, humanity is knowingly racing towards
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