Considered as Saraceno’s biggest installation to date in Russia,
Moving Atmospheres “
resonates with the 19th and 20th-century Russian cosmists who suggested that people, buildings, and entire cities should ascend to the skies”. In fact, the artist explains that “
an aero solar sculpture is not meant to remove you from Earth so that you can live in some unsullied environment above the clouds.”
The future is in the air!! As we float at the bottom of the ocean of air, we move into the Aerocene, an era that resists the gravity of today by keeping the temperature of the air-stable so all passengers may stay aboard this journey!! As you know we need to find alternative ways to move within the planetary boundaries and out of the colonialist, extractivist, and patriarchal practices that keep fueling our economies, and find alternative social, environmental, and mental ecologies of practice among all of us…to open up our thermodynamic imaginations, to float within an envelop