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Constellations: Global Reflections (CGR) channels the energy and attention from world leaders attending the G20 summit in Bali to the general public through 20 site-specific artworks reflecting on current environmental and humanitarian crises. Fung Collaboratives curator, Lance Fung, worked with the artists for a year to realize their thought provoking commissions and investigations of ecology, colonialism, and consumption amid the political arena.

Each particpating artist offers personal views of the need for global cooperation and continued policy changes regarding environmental justice, sea level rise, ocean plastic pollution, gender equity and the return to basic humanity and empathy in this unprecedented exhibition.

Constellations: Global Reflections will be the first of its kind international art exhibition. One artist from each G20 member country will be invited to use their voice to either design a two-dimensional artwork inspired by ongoing discussions at the G20 or reproduce a pre-existing artwork. Subject matter ranges from climate change, equity, to global collaboration. Balinese textiles, lanterns, and Wayang, a traditional form of puppet theater, were inspirations for Constellations. Both visible outdoor during the day and at night, these sculptures will take on a quiet, reverent quality and will act as beacons calling people from around the world to come together to see art and discuss ways of creating a better and stronger future.

Curator Lance M. Fung gathered an amazing group of artists to participate: Tony Albert (Australia), Dana Awartani, (Saudi Arabia),Xu Bing (China), Berkay Bugdan (Turkey), Genevieve Cadieux (Canada), Minerva Cuevas (Mexico), Arahmaiani Feisal (Indonesia), N. S. Harsha (India), Kota Hirakawa (Japan), Ilya & Emilia Kabakov (Russia/Ukraine), Kimsooja (South Korea), Naledi Tshegofatso Modupi (South Africa), A.D Pirous (Indonesia), Paola Pivi (Italy), Liliana Porter (Argentina), Caio Reisewitz (Brazil), Thomas Ruff (Germany), Yinka Shonibare CBE (United Kingdom), Kiki Smith (United States), Ben Vautier (France).

Courtesy Fung Collaboratives, Curator Lance M. Fung.
Photo Credit: John Talley Photography