WHO Futures Art Exhibition

Artist Statement: Most Pacific Islands have coral reefs with marine creatures found nowhere else. These habitats face major threats, are turning white and bleaching – creating ecological disaster. The main cause of bleaching is changing sea temperature due to global warming and greenhouse emissions. A 2050 world imagines action now to combat global warming and ease its effects. This will empower ecologists and marine biologists who are demonstrating that given time and help, corals will adapt and regenerate.

Artist Statement: In 2018, French artist JACE came to Jardin Orange for a residency project in Shenzhen China. At that time ,it was undergoing demolition and rectification within the park. The building is cold, also has temperature because of human life. JACE was moved and started creating in the wall bricks from the ruins.He combined his IP "GOUZOUS" with Chinese traditional culture to record the traces of buildings that have existed in the city. Even reminds us to keep warm between people and world. Artist：JACE

Artist Statement: Making education more relevant, equitable and inclusive is crucial to achieving sustainable development. Education is a ‘development multiplier’ in that it plays a pivotal role in accelerating progress across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, be it poverty eradication, good health, gender equality, decent work and growth, reduced inequalities, action on climate or building peaceful societies.

Artist Statement: Medium: Coffee, Pen and Marker on Paper Size: 30 cm x 42 cm Humans are part of the nature and should protect the environment and save our ecosystem.

Artist Statement: This project is about mask waste in the public space. "New Waste" is photographic work showing face mask found on the ground. To combat the spread of coronavirus, the use of face masks has increased, creating new waste.

Artist Statement: After puzzling over a decades-long mis-diagnosis of several different mental illnesses, Kelly examines the struggles, frustrations and enlightened discoveries on mental illness in her series of self-portraits, hoping to shed awareness on the importance of mental health in Asian communities.

Artist Statement: Fire and Embers - Distinctive personal style and use of color permeates throughout this work. Use of acrylic paints over black canvas. Fire and Embers for the future of humanity and creating an environment of wellness looking forward to 2050. Building trust in care and holding on to faith rather than the fiscal burdens of the world and rely on the economics of trust and the power of people versus the almighty dollar.

Artist Statement: From SARS to the new coronavirus, the flesh has proved nothingness and existence. There is only one thing in life that is very certain, that is, life is death in the end, and everyone is living towards death. I don't want to express the beautiful things in human society. What I want to express is the criticism and thinking of real life, such as the game between people, the impact of the deterioration of the ecological environment, and so on.

Artist Statement: From SARS to the new coronavirus, the flesh has proved nothingness and existence. There is only one thing in life that is very certain, that is, life is death in the end, and everyone is living towards death. I don't want to express the beautiful things in human society. What I want to express is the criticism and thinking of real life, such as the game between people, the impact of the deterioration of the ecological environment, and so on.

Artist Statement: Community is a notion that we are not only connected by not only our heritage or proximity, but also through an exchange of ideas and a desire to help one another. Trees personify this complex and vital system. In 2016, ecologist Suzanne Simard wanted to find out if trees could talk to each other. What she found was a network of fungi underground connecting the roots of trees that not only relayed information to each other, but also provided nutrients for young and dying plants. This discovery i

Artist Statement: Community is a notion that we are not only connected by not only our heritage or proximity, but also through an exchange of ideas and a desire to help one another. Trees personify this complex and vital system. In 2016, ecologist Suzanne Simard wanted to find out if trees could talk to each other. What she found was a network of fungi underground connecting the roots of trees that not only relayed information to each other, but also provided nutrients for young and dying plants. This discovery i

Artist Statement: Community is a notion that we are not only connected by not only our heritage or proximity, but also through an exchange of ideas and a desire to help one another. Trees personify this complex and vital system. In 2016, ecologist Suzanne Simard wanted to find out if trees could talk to each other. What she found was a network of fungi underground connecting the roots of trees that not only relayed information to each other, but also provided nutrients for young and dying plants. This discovery i

Artist Statement: Marly Joseph Desir is prefer thematic art but make also self expression.His usual themes are :Climate change,environmental protection ,ecosystem recovery ,water conservation ,biodiversity women, landscape, flowers ... Convinced that there is enough ugliness in the world; he prefers to capture Beauty, Elegance and Grace. The artist favors is acrylic on Canvas likes to achieve smooth surface.

Artist Statement: Medium: Pencil and Charcoal on Paper Size: 70 cm x 50 cm The work "Consumer" takes a critical look at the overconsumption of humans. The overconsumption has consequences on the overexploitation of natural resources, environment and conflicts.

Artist Statement: The series Overlook examines the entropy of visual culture and the discord of perception. It deconstructs how our culture consumes imagery by masking iconography within layers of line, shape, color and rhythm. Overlook is a critique of a willingness to adapt to new sensibilities in observation. Its intention is to provoke the viewer to seek out what is familiar yet veiled by dissonance, and invites the viewer to engage with misleading, irrelevant, fragmented and superficial information.

Artist Statement: The series Overlook examines the entropy of visual culture and the discord of perception. It deconstructs how our culture consumes imagery by masking iconography within layers of line, shape, color and rhythm. Overlook is a critique of a willingness to adapt to new sensibilities in observation. Its intention is to provoke the viewer to seek out what is familiar yet veiled by dissonance, and invites the viewer to engage with misleading, irrelevant, fragmented and superficial information.

Artist Statement: The series Overlook examines the entropy of visual culture and the discord of perception. It deconstructs how our culture consumes imagery by masking iconography within layers of line, shape, color and rhythm. Overlook is a critique of a willingness to adapt to new sensibilities in observation. Its intention is to provoke the viewer to seek out what is familiar yet veiled by dissonance, and invites the viewer to engage with misleading, irrelevant, fragmented and superficial information.

Artist Statement: for her first micro-pen art project, this rockin cup was created in 2021 during her 2nd semester in a drawing class as part of her post-double concussion retraining program. may this rockin cup with piano cup cover with a musical notes body and rockin’ guitar cup holder bring sweet tunes to someone’s day in 2050; let it be a reminder to keep making beats, or to continue to listen to sounds that inspires one to take wellness a sip at a time with love and compassion.

Artist Statement: A photo of this unique world bangka (canoe) built by an all-volunteer diverse group of filipinos, filipino-americanx and indi-pinos (mixed indigenous of Northern California tribes and Filipinos) with a gifted red western cedar log from a two-spirit Tongva canoe builder. All hands on board during a retreat of Bangka Journey builders~ check out www.bangkajourney.com. The vision to fulfill dreams of healing Earth Mother through songs and dance by children at dawn on canoes all over the globe.

Artist Statement: This mixed medium of initial hand drawing then digitized of a simple flame glowing with hand written mantras for continued healing. The surrounding black images connotes the destruction of the current economies that evolves around traumatic shifts while a person attempts to rebuild life during hardships sustained from mild traumatic brain injuries from a car accident.