"Hope Hippo" is the first thing you see (and hear) when you walk into the Serralves Museum. It's part of "Entelechy," a fascinating mid-career retrospective of work by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, a pair of 50-something artists who live and work in Puerto Rico.
I suspect the occasional whistle-blowing may be sounding the alarm about climate change, which has gotten exponentially worse since this piece was first performed in 2005.
Synthetic flower petals--some yellow, some pink--that look and feel as if they've just fallen from a bloom are scattered throughout the multimedia exhibit that occupies two large floors of the museum.
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| "Graft" (partial, 2019) |
What says "fossil fuels" more loudly than "Petrified Petrol Pump," a 2010 work?
The whole experience is definitely greater than the sum of its parts. It's easy to see why they represented the United States at the 2011 Venice Biennale.
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