Artist Reception, A Sentient Land: Artistic Alliances with Forests, Beetles, Salt, and Air
Wednesday, January 21, 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Media Art Gallery, 25 Avery Street, Boston MA
January 21 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Celebrate the opening of this groundbreaking four-person exhibition featuring artists Margaux Crump, Julia Krupa, Eileen Ryan, and Nelly-Eve Rajotte, who blur the boundaries between creator and material, science and art, human and more-than-human.
Experience immersive installations that invite direct dialogue with the natural world. Through innovative methods including bio-sonification, cloud chambers, LIDAR scanning, and ancient practices like fumage and saining, these artists share authorship with trees, stones, salt, and air itself.
This is your first opportunity to encounter works that challenge traditional notions of artistic agency and forge new pathways for interspecies connection. Witness how forests communicate at 220 hertz, how materials become collaborators, and how art can shift our relationship with the living world.
Meet the artists and the curator, Shana Dumont Garr, and explore questions that bridge aesthetics, ecology, and empathy: What happens when materials inform their own representation? How do we translate on behalf of the more-than-human?
Light refreshments will be served.
Exhibition runs January 21 – March 28, 2026
Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 12–6 PM
Free and open to the public
image: Eileen Ryan
contemporary@emerson.edu
