Wheeler/Giraldo Collaboration for “Art on the Marquee” on View through August 31
Prospectus artist Deb Todd Wheeler’s collaboration with Lina Maria Giraldo is one of five media works by women artists premiering on the marquee in front of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center though August 31, 2016.
The work Wheeler and Giraldo have created is titled Wartime Nutrition, about which they say:
A still from “Wartime Nutrition” by Deb Todd Wheeler and Lina Maria Giraldo
“Our society is changing constantly. More and more challenges arise, leaving humanity fragile and unprepared for the shifting requirements of survival. Our ecological structure is crumbling, our consumption unstoppable and the media more oppressive, manipulative and overwhelming than ever before. Our daily lives become covered with layers of advertising, “news,” celebrity lifestyle reports, and a growing sense of uncertainty. Layer after layer of fake grows thicker every day, making reality a jumbled, constructed set of fictions.”
New works by five pairs of female artists are being presented by Boston Cyberarts and the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority on the 80-foot-tall multi-screen LED marquee outside Center, located at 415 Summer Street, Boston. The other four teams consist of Mags Harries and Catherine Siller, Nathalie Miebach and Alison Maria Rodriguez, Emily Eveleth and Amy Baxter Macdonald, and Ambreen Butt and Cindy Bishop Sherman. Generally, the five new works deal with contemporary themes of refugees and migration, ecology and consumption, reality versus fiction, dissolution and enigma, and empowerment by overcoming adversity.
