Rowan University Museum of Contemporary Art

Reception and Gallery TalkEco-Social Realism begins with a pressing question: if climate change is also a crisis of imagination, what role can artists and media makers play in helping us see, feel, and politically inhabit the bioregions we already occupy? The artwork on view here presents narratives of real places in Mexico, Colombia, and the United States as well as images and visual culture that challenge those territorial scales and constraints. Play, beauty, and fantasy are used to subvert topics that might otherwise be difficult to enter into, while deep explorations of material culture and language offer their own points