In This Exhibition, Gender Meets Climate Activism. It’s a Lot.

Oct 18, 2023 | Emily LaBarge
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“We won’t play nature to your culture,” declares a 1983 work by the American artist Barbara Kruger, known for her biting pairings of text and image. The phrase runs across a black-and-white close-up of a woman’s face as she lies in the grass, her hair merging with the ground, a slender leaf placed over each of her eyes, as if reductive binaries — whether they’re between nature and culture, female and male, the body and the mind — render us blind.