Tali Weinberg

Dreamsong is pleased to present this special project in our Cinema. Tali Weinberg will also be joining us for a short residency July 30 – August 4th, 2022.

Through weaving and sculpture, I trace relationships between climate crisis, extraction, illness, and sense of place; between personal and communal loss; and between corporeal and ecological bodies. In my newest work I interweave petrochemicalderived materials, plant materials, and landscape imagery to draw connections between climate crisis, fossil fuel extraction, and the buildup of toxic plastics in the earth, water, and our bodies. Forest fires; smoke inhalation; microplastics in our ecosystems, blood, and lungs; loss of homes past and future. The hand-woven pieces in Memories of Future Fires each start with photos I took in a fire-decimated landscape in the Pacific Northwest. I reduce the trees in these landscapes down to their fundamental shapes before rematerializing them with petrochemical-derived monofilament. As I look to connections between the lifesustaining circulatory systems that are both internal and external to the human body, the abstracted tree forms also begin to evoke hearts and lungs. Up close, the transparent, porous, woven structures take shape as cells and flames. - Tali Weinberg

This project was supported in part by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council