Tomás Saraceno: Art and Science come together to imagine New Future Scenarios

Imagining the future collaboratively, inspired by the principles of collective care practiced by some local communities: this is the commitment of Tomás Saraceno, half visionary artist and half non-conformist scientist. Complimentarities at the Red Brick Art Museum presents around one hundred interdisciplinary works. Saraceno dialogues with local communities, scientific researchers and institutions from all over the world, inviting visitors to rethink the dominant strands of knowledge in the Capitalocene era.
The exhibition includes the screening of the documentary entitled Fly with Pacha, into the Aerocene, a film directed by Maximiliano Laina and Tomás Saraceno. In Andean culture, Pacha is a superior energy that organizes and harmonizes all the inhabitants of the Cosmos. A performance was organized with the local communities of Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc in solidarity with the Kollas Indigenous Peoples, who protect their ancestral lands from lithium extraction, for eco-social justice in the name of the peoples of the South of the world. Part of the film documents the flight of the Aerocene Pacha over the vast salt flats of Salinas Grandes, Argentina. The flight, which actually took place in January 2020, was possible using only the air and the sun, completely free of fossil fuels, batteries, lithium, helium and hydrogen, becoming the most sustainable flight in human history. A journey that set 32 world records, recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), made possible by Aerocene pilot Leticia Noemi Marques who flew with the message “Water and life are worth more than lithium”.