Alvin Luong's art installation Ration Market Special is a sober glimpse into the future of our climate crisis. | CBCArts
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, which projects that large swathes of Vietnam will be uninhabitable due to rising sea levels by 2050. The artist imagines stalls just like this lining migration routes to serve a forthcoming wave of climate refugees as his friends and family leave Vietnam for safety.
After a two-year wait, Edward Burtynsky brings massive climate change exhibit to Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square "My grandparents are refugees, my parents are refugees, and I have maybe felt at some point like I might be the first generation who will not be a refugee," Luong says. "For me, the tragedy is that there will probably be a third generation who will also be refugees."
The artist does not call the work "dystopic," however. Rather, it's "a sober recognition of what's very likely to happen." In the West, he says, we think abstractly of climate change as "mass extinction events," but that misses the picture of everyday people finding the means to survive through an evolving crisis.
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