Tomás Saraceno: Interwoven│600│Introduction

Script of this episode// Welcome to the New Taipei City Art Museum. We invite you to explore Interwoven, the solo exhibition of artist Tomás Saraceno. In the 1970s, environmental movements framed “nature” as an object in need of protection and sought to return the world to a pre-industrial state of purity. Entering the twenty-first century, however, scholars introduced the concept of the Anthropocene, arguing that humans have become a geological force transforming the Earth itself. Others argue that the current era should be referred to as the Capitalocene, in which the climate crisis and pollution are driven by capitalism's relentless need for profit and growth, rather than an inherent human trait. Furthermore, this view challenges the idea of “pristine nature,” resisting binaries of touched and untouched, and recognizing that such notions of ‘returning to nature’ exclude Indigenous voices. Such cultures, in which ancestral knowledge and wisdom have guided Indigenous peoples to live in sustainable and equilibrated ways, are ones from which many of us can still learn a great deal. For more than two decades, artist Tomás Saraceno has cultivated forms of knowledge that emerge from collaboration. His Berlin-based studio functions as an experimental environment where art, science, and social action converge. Across installations, floating sculptures, and grassroots activism, Saraceno's practice invites a (re)consideration of interdependence and openness. In Interwoven, Saraceno’s first large-scale solo exhibition in Taiwan, audiences are invited to attune with and learn from the web(s) of life—together with the air, spiders, clouds, and the cosmos. Visitors will encounter immersive installations where spider/web architectures and flying museums of reused materials become vehicles to imagine a multiplicity of futures. ----------------------------------------------------- Tomás Saraceno: Interwoven 2026.03.21–2026.09.06 NTCAM Gallery 6A、6B