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With both artists using maps to orient the viewers, the installations are intended to raise awareness about our relationship to the environment and, in the case of Giehl’s work, our ability to sustain life and to support the almost 1 billion people now facing issues of hunger, water shortages and habitat destruction.
The HMA will host an opening reception for the artists on Thursday, Feb. 11 from 6 until 7:30 p.m., with an informal gallery talk by the artists from 5:30 until 6 p.m.
The event is free and the public invited to attend.
On March 18, the last day of the show, from noon until 5:30 p.m., the public is invited to bring a canned food item to be donated to the Bridgeport Rescue Mission and in return will receive one of the bowls from the Rice Is Life installation to keep.
Although both artists use maps to express their works, each artist leads visitors to a very different place. Giehl’s "Rice is Life" navigates the geopolitics of food while "Simulacrutopia," by Waale leads visitors on a melancholy journey to a “make-believe” environment that bears no relationship to the real one.
The museum is at 900 Lafayette Blvd. on the campus of Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport. For information, click here.
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