Artist Kristin McIver Unpacks the Link Between Data and Climate
Her latest exhibit, “Impressions,” debuted last Saturday at the Jane Lombard Gallery.
In a velvety green wrap dress, artist Kristin McIver floated around the Jane Lombard Gallery in Tribeca, where her latest exhibit, Impressions, debuted on Saturday. “This show was supposed to happen last April,” she tells me as two visitors crane their necks to view one of her 12 video sculptures, each comprising of an acrylic cube that acts as an extended screen playing looping clips of water. Each cube’s name corresponds with its geotag from the film’s location, except for Current Location, which is the only cube filled with real water. “But the pandemic has created so much new context for my work, though. We’re looking at our screens all the time, even to look at nature.”
McIver’s three-part Impressions series explores the relationship between data and narrative when it comes to climate change. The first iteration focuses on water, while the next two will tackle earth and fire, respectively, at the MARS Gallery in Melbourne and Royale Projects in Los Angeles. Between the prisms and immersive, large-format video installations to the poems and neon signage excerpted from climate data algorithms, McIver highlights how easy it is for information to become distorted and…
