March 25 - April 18, 2021 1155 6th Avenue, New York City
EcoArt Project and Chashama are pleased to present a solo exhibition by the American interdisciplinary artist Alex Nero (b. 1986, Ukraine). Alex Nero: The Weather Within envisions the entrenched perspective of climate-change denial as an internal weather pattern—a frozen mindset that humans need to thaw in order to shift.
Alex Nero's elemental visual language explores the role of emotions and personal responsibility in relation to the global climate crisis. The installation debuts a series of projection pieces titled Monoliths alongside prints from the artist's experiments with fluid dynamics. Directly addressing climate-change denial, Monoliths represent massive structures of "obviousness" that can't be ignored if one is consciously present in the room.
For almost a decade, water has been a driving force for Alex Nero’s artistic process—a process that he views as a tool, a catalyst, for self-reflection.
“We are cold when we are frozen in our ways. We're neither warmed by nature nor can we be in touch with it. We're at a point that is farthest away. So to move past denial, all we have to do is observe the weather within. You can't deny the climate crisis if you pay attention."
