New Taipei City Art Museum | Tomas Saraceno: Entangled Universe

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Exhibition Information

｜Exhibition Period｜2026.03.21–2026.09.06 ｜Exhibition Venue｜New Taipei City Museum of Art Exhibition Halls 6A, 6B ｜Supervising Unit｜New Taipei City Government ｜Organizer｜New Taipei City Museum of Art ｜Sponsor｜Friends of the Museum Association

"Tomás Saraceno: Interwoven"

Tomás Saraceno: Interwoven

"Interwoven" is Tomás Saraceno's first large-scale solo exhibition in Taiwan. The exhibition invites the audience to perceive the world with the "Web of Life," learning from air, spiders, clouds, spores, seeds, dark matter, soot and pollutant particles, and the universe itself. In the immersive installation, the structures of spiders and their webs, as well as the "flying museum" composed of recycled materials, become vehicles for imagining multiple futures; at the same time, the audience will also see the results of the artist's long-term collaboration with indigenous communities in the Salinas Grandes of northern Argentina.

This collaboration is centered on eco-social justice, learning from ancestral knowledge, and resisting the socio-political and economic structures behind the ecological crisis and resource exploitation dynamics between the global majority and minority. In this context, "sustainability" is no longer just an abstract ideal, but a co-existence issue that requires continuous questioning, thinking, and practice.

Museo Aero Solar at the Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai, Thailand, 2023. Photo: Joaquín Ezcurra. Courtesy Aerocene, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Aerocene Foundation. Museo Aero Solar at the Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai, Thailand, 2023. Photo: Joaquín Ezcurra. Courtesy Aerocene, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Aerocene Foundation.

The environmental movement that emerged in the 1970s had a strong redemptive color, viewing "nature" as an object to be protected and restored, and attempting to return the world to its pre-industrial pristine state. However, entering the 21st century, scholars in humanities and social sciences proposed the concept of the "Anthropocene," pointing out that humans are no longer just affecting the environment, but have become a geological force changing the Earth. Climate, oceans, land, and life are now closely intertwined with human history and actions. Therefore, environmental issues have shifted from prevention and remediation to a more fundamental question: when we cannot return to an unpolluted world, how can we coexist with this world and with other life forms?

Some scholars also believe that the contemporary era should be called the "Capitalocene." This concept emphasizes that the current global crisis does not come from "all humanity," but is closely related to the capitalist system's endless pursuit of profit, growth, and resource extraction—climate change, mass species extinction, and pollution problems. This critique also challenges the imagination of "pristine nature," pointing out that this view has long ignored the worldview of indigenous peoples, which is the understanding that humans and nature have never been separated, but have always been interdependent.

Fly with Aerocene Pacha, 2020. Courtesy Aerocene, the Indigenous Communities of Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc and neugerriemschneider. Berlin. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Aerocene Foundation. Fly with Aerocene Pacha, 2020. Courtesy Aerocene, the Indigenous Communities of Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc and neugerriemschneider. Berlin. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Aerocene Foundation.

In the exhibition flow, visitors will traverse between microscopic and planetary scales—from the spatial perception of spiders to the thermodynamic movements of the atmosphere—feeling the invisible threads that connect our shared existence. Saraceno proposes a shift in perspective: from a capital-centric understanding to an "Aero(s)cenic" state of perception—a way of seeing that centers on the atmosphere and all things interwoven within it (both living and non-living).

The exhibition invites the audience to enter a relational field, rethinking how we interact with the world, with other life, and with matter itself, between art, sensory experience, and collective imagination. It encourages us to reflect on how every action and "response-ability" shapes the future of the Earth, and guides us to learn from diverse knowledge, moving towards a more just, ecologically conscious, and planet-like interconnected way of coexistence.