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Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials

Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials
The Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90024
Sunday, April 5, 2026 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Free

Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials features twenty-two artists from North, Central, and South America who embrace the unpredictable nature of living materials. These artists use materials such as avocado, cacao, achiote, cochineal, stone, clay, and natural dyes to create large-scale installations, paintings, works on paper, and mixed-media sculpture. Each of these materials is alive—they evolve, decay, drip, crumble, and evaporate. They are rooted in the spirit, memory, and knowledge of Brown and Indigenous worlds. The exhibition considers ideas around materials as records of the living and repositories of cosmic memory, organic decay and transformation.

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