Lionel Cruet

Retóricas de un futuro incierto (Rhetorics of an Uncertain Future)

Lionel Cruet, Rhetorics of an Uncertain Future en Yi Gallery, New York, NY © Lionel Cruet 2021. Image courtesy of Yi Gallery NYC.

Lionel Cruet, Retóricas de un futuro incierto en El Lobi, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2021 © Lionel Cruet 2021. Imagen cortesía de El Lobi

Lionel Cruet, Rhetorics of an Uncertain Future for Play+Inspire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA © Lionel Cruet 2021. Image courtesy of Play+Inspire Gallery

Retóricas de un futuro incierto (Rhetorics of an Uncertain Future)

Retóricas de un futuro incierto (Rhetorics of an Uncertain Future) is a transmedia exhibition that focuses on the topics of coastal habitat loss, global warming, and the effects of climate change due to human activity on the planet. The exhibition includes a series of six drawings made up of silhouettes of coastal animals that have been mutilated. These drawings narrate a larger story and give rise to this project. Also, there is a video, sculptural objects, and a mural that occupies the walls of the gallery and expands into space through a transmedia narrative on social networks and ultimately, a website. The works and the curatorial text are deliberately proposed to persuade the audience about the impact of being human in relation to the natural environment, and how this reality poses uncertain futures for every organism that inhabits the planet.

Acknowledgement

El Lobi

Vanessa Hernández Gracia, Co-director Melissa Sarthou, Co-director

Yi-Gallery

Cecilia Zhang Jalboukh, Director

Play+Inspire Gallery

Rebecca Potts Aguirre, Curator and Co-funder Maria Coit, Curator y Co-funder

Production

Dianne Brás Feliciano, Curator

Donald C. Escudero Rivera, Project Coordination

Ricardo J. Cruet Morales, Assistant

Eric Sánchez Gil, Assistant de montaje

Juan Felipe Paredes, Graphic design and catalogue

Jomarie Rodríguez González, signage

María I. Rodríguez Pérez, Editor

Julio Villar Martínez, Tech Assistance

Luis X. Rivera Sánchez, Artist Assistant

Albert Nieves, Artist Assistant

Animation: Kelli Williams, Daniel Capote, Héctor Cruet Morales Composición

Soundscapes: Damián Quiñones, Angélica Negrón

Iria Bignami, Photo Documentation

Xavier Ojeda Montañez, Video documentation

Quintín Rivera Toro, Aliosky García Sosa, Wanda Morales Quiñones, Lionel Cruet González, Jessica Valiente Rivera