{"id":3611,"date":"2026-10-03T09:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/at-haus-der-kunst-tom0e1s-saraceno0b4s-2ancestral-futures2-braids-webs-air-and-salt-into-a-living-network\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T09:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:59:54","slug":"at-haus-der-kunst-tom0e1s-saraceno0b4s-2ancestral-futures2-braids-webs-air-and-salt-into-a-living-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echoartfoundation.com\/es\/at-haus-der-kunst-tom0e1s-saraceno0b4s-2ancestral-futures2-braids-webs-air-and-salt-into-a-living-network\/","title":{"rendered":"At Haus der Kunst, Tom\u0000e1s Saraceno\u0000b4s \u00152Ancestral Futures\u00152 braids webs, air, and salt into a living network"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Haus der Kunst, Tom\u0000e1s Saraceno\u0000b4s solo exhibition Ancestral Futures<\/em> brings together more than two decades of ecological and collaborative projects under a clear proposition: the knowledge held in the past is vital to shaping our shared tomorrow. Born in Argentina and based in Berlin, the artist merges art, architecture, and science, using scale and spectacle to make visible the life-giving systems that bind us.<\/p>\n

Weaving networks, sensing cycles<\/h2>\n

Often dubbed \u00153the art world\u00152s favorite arachnophile,\u00152 Saraceno returns to spiders and their webs as both metaphor and method. Interactive installations invite visitors to crawl through sprawling structures, while his decade-long series Webs of At-tent(s)ion<\/em> welcomes several species of spiders into the museum, where they spin sticky architectures inside boxes. The recurring web motif underscores interdependence and cyclical processes, grounding vast ideas of space, time, and matter in tactile experience.<\/p>\n

Saraceno also adapts his long-standing interest in solar-powered air balloons for the museum context. Nearby, an immersive cavern fashioned from crowd-sourced plastic bags slowly inflates as visitors pedal stationary bicycles to power the project. Wanderers inside are enveloped by a colorful patchwork of familiar brands, a vivid accumulation of disposability and consumerism transformed into a shared environment.<\/p>\n

Collaborations and a sanctuary of water<\/h2>\n

Some of the exhibition\u00152s most striking works arise from Saraceno\u0000b4s ongoing collaboration with Indigenous communities of Red Atacama, in the basin of Salinas Grandes in northwestern Argentina. Eleven weavers loaned handmade blankets, presented together as a vibrant, soft space for lounging at the show\u00152s opening. The installation expands into galleries filled with sand, water, salt, and more, immersing visitors in the landscape of Salinas Grandes.<\/p>\n

Several works reference The Sanctuary of Water<\/em>, a multi-pronged project developed with the people of Salinas Grandes. As the museum says, the collaboration \u00153emerges in solidarity with the communities\u00152 resistance to lithium mining in one of the world\u00152s largest lithium-rich regions. Their struggle highlights the continuing legacy of colonial exploitation: While international corporations profit from resources such as lithium\u00151essential for technologies including electric cars\u00151the environmental and social costs are borne by local communities.\u00152 Conceived as a permanent land work, The Sanctuary of Water<\/em> is organized around a large reflective pond that captures the sky, skewing the boundary between land and air. \u00153In our worldview,\u00152 says the collaborative project\u00152s website, \u00153Pacha names the inseparable weave of space, time, and matter. It is one living body, sustained by the water that flows through them all.\u00152<\/p>\n

Ancestral Futures<\/em> is on view in Munich through February 7. Further details about the collaboration around The Sanctuary of Water<\/em> can be found on the project\u00152s website.<\/p>\n

V\u00eda thisiscolossal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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