Sustainability: Anticipation of Disaster
The exhibit choreographs conversations between all featured artists’ work regarding the term ‘sustainability’ which has eluded concrete definition.
FEIN Collections [made in new york city] is privileged to announce its exhibit, ‘Sustainability: Anticipation of Disaster’ — now on view. The exhibit, open from the 16th of August, enjoyed a celebratory evening on the 23rd of August and will remain on view through the 4th of October 2025, unless extended.
Through painting, photography and interdisciplinary practice, FEIN Collections’ creators address the greatest challenges of our time as an ecological, creative, and personal question that resists a single definition. Together, their works form conversations about respect, resilience, vulnerability, and the multitudes we each contain.
The exhibit includes Irene Hoff’s ‘Choice,’ a mixed media work on canvas that asks one to be authentic to oneself, to choose that which is best for oneself. ‘Regard,’ a self-portrait by Sue C Waller – known for capturing moments of daydreams in her black and white photographic snapshots – engages its viewers with mystique and honesty. Sheeba Khan’s intensely physical, evocatively colourful and provocative ‘Sweet Surrender’ that asks one to escape the ‘shackles’ of conformity.
David Hansen’s large-scale paintings fuse a dystopia that relays man’s destruction of nature and one another with pleasing aesthetics, positing the question of his ability for redemption. Miles Critchley-Hope’s photo collages – printed on alternative substrates – speak to humanity’s responsibilities to the earth. John Klukas searches for a dynamic stasis whilst balancing disparate demands in his archival pigment prints and one-of-a-kind works.
The exhibition’s title comes from artist Gareth Lloyd’s reflection: ‘Sustainability can be read as a secular messianism: the promise of a consistent future grounded in representability, probability, and calculability; anticipation of disaster.’ Therefore, he is represented by two of his key works: ‘Sea and Sulphur’ and ‘Study of Lake Nemi.’
Bringing together diverse works from seven contemporary artists from around the world, FEIN Collections contributes to Bruton’s reputation as a hub for the visual and plastic arts.
FEIN Collections is at Unit 7, Old Mill Business Park, Station Road, Bruton, Somerset BA10 0EH, conveniently located close to local attractions such as the renowned Hauser & Wirth Somerset, No.1 Bruton, The Old Pharmacy, Bruton Church, Godminster organic cheese shop and is right above The Cellarhand wine shop.
