Two digital projections of Tree Mountain and Wheatfield as well as the film The Living Pyramid by the legendary ecological land artist Agnes Denes are presented as part of The Material Revolution. Nonagenarian Agnes Denes has worked at the intersection of land-art, eco-feminism, mathematics and philosophy for over fifty years.
These works often had a prophetic quality including her iconic urban intervention Wheatfield – A Confrontation, in which she ambitiously planted a two-acre amber field of grain under the eyes of the Twin Towers and Wall Street in 1982, or Tree Mountain, a community land reclamation project in Finland initiated in 1982 and inaugurated in 1996, or her powerful environmental interventions and a large-scale earthworks, such a the Living Pyramid, first realised in 2015.
