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ABYSSICIDE, a groundbreaking site-specific installation by designer Sruli Recht in collaboration with the RMIT Architecture Tectonic Formation Lab, explores the intersection of art, technology, and environmental sustainability. The installation features bone-like sculptures grown from seawater using a biomimetic technique that mimics coral accretion. This innovative process transforms seawater into solid material, envisioning a future where garments, integrated with the body, evolve into coral as ocean levels rise.The installation consists of three suspended sculptures, created through computational design and robotic fabrication. It represents a fusion of ancient techniques and futuristic visions, emphasizing the potential of renewable materials. Supported by Melbourne Design Week, RMIT U...

Human connection is at the core of JR's multi-disciplinary practice. Through massive photographic displays, he looks to transform the places ingrained in collective memory by superimposing the images of everyday people amongst historical sites, such as the Pyramids of Giza and Milano Centrale, to form new dialogues and spark social change. Over the years, the French artist has also created moving documentaries, most recently with Robert de Niro spotlighting the story of the actor's late father, as well as a film on Tehachapi, one of California's most dangerous maximum security prisons.The latter film debuted last year at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado and showcases 48 prisoners serving life sentences without parole. Shot in 2019, JR sat down with each inmate to learn their stories...

The artist collective Troika presents Terminal Beach an immersive installation at the MAK in Vienna, as part of the Klima Biennale Wien 2024. This exhibition, Troika's first solo show in Austria, explores non-human intelligence, climate change adaptation, and the digital afterlife of human culture and myths.Central to the installation is a four-minute video loop on a giant LED wall, showing a black fur-covered robot arm chopping down the last tree on Earth. This scene unfolds in a desolate, flooded landscape filled with 3D-printed digital twins of museum objects, dubbed "Grenzgänger" or "crossers."Eva Rucki, Conny Freyer, and Sebastien Noel of Troika aim to explore the liminal spaces between artificial and natural, living and non-living, digital and physical realms. The installation featur...

Michael Kagan is a Brooklyn-based artist who explores the limits of human potential. His dynamic paintings are meticulously layered with rapid strokes of paint as he visualizes the emotional journeys experienced by those who live life on the edge, from Formula 1 drivers zipping by a narrow motorway to astronauts traversing the final frontier. On view at Almine Rech's Monaco location is a new solo exhibition in which Kagan explore's the city-state's connection to motorsports. Emblematic of its title, Victory Lap features various paintings that capture the sensations of the final stretch of a race. "The subjects of his spectacular paintings and sculptures are superhumans who brave all obstacles and fears in their obsessive and passionate pursuit of records, speed, excellence, and victory," w...