What Water Feeds with Jin Lee, 2024
Curated by Nathania Rubin
Milner Library
Normal, IL
Curated by Nathania Rubin
Milner Library
Normal, IL
Photos by Elias Wrightam
Curatorial Statement:
"Water maintains our land and food. It is intrinsic to all animal life. Water’s uses, distribution, and contamination are crucial moral issues. It is also a space for our psyches to swim and contemplate. It marks time and seasons. Water acts as an embodiment of longing outside of the human body, while remaining a necessity for the survival of all species. Water is material and poetry.
Ruth Burke’s artwork addresses ethical themes related to agricultural practice, human-animal relationships, and sustainability, broadly defined. Jin Lee’s work deals with the subjective experiences of landscape, often surrounding bodies of water. It plays off of a deep artistic tradition of landscape as spectacle, leisure, and a space for reflection."
Nathania Rubin
The exhibit and programming are hosted by the Center for a Sustainable Water Future in collaboration with Milner Library and with generous support from the Alice and Fannie Fell Trust.
World Water Day is observed annually on March 22 as a United Nations observance day to raise awareness of global water issues and advance global efforts to promote the sustainable management of water resources and realize the human right to water and sanitation.
"Water maintains our land and food. It is intrinsic to all animal life. Water’s uses, distribution, and contamination are crucial moral issues. It is also a space for our psyches to swim and contemplate. It marks time and seasons. Water acts as an embodiment of longing outside of the human body, while remaining a necessity for the survival of all species. Water is material and poetry.
Ruth Burke’s artwork addresses ethical themes related to agricultural practice, human-animal relationships, and sustainability, broadly defined. Jin Lee’s work deals with the subjective experiences of landscape, often surrounding bodies of water. It plays off of a deep artistic tradition of landscape as spectacle, leisure, and a space for reflection."
Nathania Rubin
The exhibit and programming are hosted by the Center for a Sustainable Water Future in collaboration with Milner Library and with generous support from the Alice and Fannie Fell Trust.
World Water Day is observed annually on March 22 as a United Nations observance day to raise awareness of global water issues and advance global efforts to promote the sustainable management of water resources and realize the human right to water and sanitation.