Cornelia Parker

THE FUTURE (Sixes and Sevens): Eden Project, Cornwall

24 May–2 November 2024 

Core Gallery, Eden Project, Cornwall

 

Cornelia Parker's multidisciplinary work THE FUTURE (Sixes and Sevens), 2023 addresses the important social and political issues of our time. In the video, Parker asks a class of primary school children to answer questions about what they imagine their future to be like, and about their hopes and fears. Although the looming climate crisis is touched on lightly by her interviewees, Parker comments: 

'I didn't mention climate change once to them but the children's responses demonstrate their awareness of the looming climate crisis. Their very future is in peril, only us adults can do something about it, and it has to be now."

 – Cornelia Parker 

 

 

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Image: Installation view of Cornelia Parker, THE FUTURE (Sixes and Sevens), 2023 in 'Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis, Hayward Gallery (21 June–3 September 2023). Photo: Mark Blower.
24 May 2024