Andrea Bowers and Mary Weatherford’s duo show at Capitain Petzel, Berlin harmonizes their requiems of eco-grief while insisting on the power of simply taking note.
The political side of beauty is urgent, especially in its capacity to mediate bad news. Andrea Bowers and Mary Weatherford are two artists whose works often inquire into beautiful yet clandestine storytelling, in registers both personal and collective. Their dual exhibition “Drink the Wild Air” at Capitain Petzel, Berlin, investigates ways of gathering, disseminating, and deciphering the hard facts and histories of eco-survival, joining Bowers’s thirty-year practice of chronicling protest and activist movements – in drawings, painting, sculpture, and film – to Weatherford’s revisionist approach to Color Field painting. Both artists are presenting recent bodies of work grounded in aesthetic concerns but very much situated in the world outside the studio.
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