Art collides with science in Los Angeles
Having become one of the great cultural events in California, PST ART advocates dialogue between both disciplines with an ecological message that resonates in a landscape scorched by fires
What time is it in Los Angeles? The city is raising its head from the rubble and struggling to regain normality in the endless devastated landscapes that we visited to write these lines just a few weeks before the wildfires. In a matter of days, like a disastrous optical illusion, they were turned to charred ruins. What is most disturbing is that some of the exhibitions of Pacific Standard Time, an ambitious artistic initiative of the Getty Foundation now renamed PST ART, seemed to predict disaster. In memory is an image of the exhibition Storm Cloud, at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles, which locates the origins of the current climate crisis in industrialization in 19th-century England.
