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At the Tipping Point: Art and Ecology from the Rooftop of the World

June 05, 2025 - September 30, 2025

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Taragaon Next

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Sagarmatha Next presents: At the Tipping Point: Art and Ecology from the Rooftop of the World

Sponsored by Saraf Foundation and curated by Dr Arshiya Lokhandwala featuring 12 artists from all over the world, the exhibition will open on June 5 at 4 pm!

Framed by the towering Himalayas, this ecological exhibition underscores Nepal’s position as a “ground zero” for climate change. The urgency of the crisis is palpable—melting glaciers threaten global water supplies, erratic weather endangers agriculture, deforestation ravages biodiversity, and rising sea levels imperil coastal life. The extinction of species has upset the delicate balance of oceans, forests, and land, pushing ecosystems to the brink. Through thought-provoking artworks, the exhibition urges collective reflection on the shared consequences of human actions and the urgent need for sustainable stewardship to safeguard our planet.

Read the curator’s note on the exhibition here!

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Exhibition Highlights

Each work in the exhibition functions as a node within a larger ecology of meaning and response. Whether through site-responsive installations, low-impact materials, with minimal carbon footprint, it performs an ecological ethic in both concept and form. It performs what theorist Andreas Boetzkes calls an “ethical ecology”[3]—where artistic form aligns with ecological consciousness, as a provocation: to listen differently, to see systemically, and to imagine otherwise asserting the critical role of art in cultivating planetary awareness and fostering modes of what Arturo Escobar calls “designs for the pluriverse”[4] alternative world-making practices grounded in relationality, reciprocity, and sustainability. Therefore, At the Tipping Point insists on the criticality of art as a medium for environmental thinking, insisting on the possibility of reworlding: of imagining new alignments between species, environments, and futures, as it strongly urges collective reflection on the shared consequences of human actions and the urgent need for sustainable stewardship to safeguard our planet.

[3] Boetzkes, Andreas. 2021. Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

[4] Escobar, Arturo. 2018. Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.