Thematic climate change shows aren't normally my thing but this one did it with style and intensity and I was just so grateful for not being bludgeoned with earnestness.
Mark Dion spoke... from printmaking joys in black and red (and blue if you're starting out), through to crazy mythical monster trees and installations of rotting fancy cakes. This is stuff that stretches the brain and in a brilliantly subversive tree of knowledge I found all my enthusiasms amusingly on one big branch - modern museums, wunderkammer, gardens, zoos, follies and grottos, not forgetting the colonizing political systems on which they grew.Downstairs fabulous rain forest roots and abstracted energy grids in cut-paper and in the walls, tiny kaleidoscope observational videos taken at water height along the Peruvian Amazon. Thanks to Adriane Colburn for that.
