Supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Pandemonium appear concurrently at The Galleries at Moore and the Fels Planetarium at The Franklin Institute, connecting the two institutions along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Pandemonium propels ideas central to Lopez’s decades-long career—calamity, violence and precarity, along with social and art historical critique—while bringing them into new, expansive forms. Known for her three-dimensional work, Lopez extends her toolkit to include mechatronics, animation, sound and VR film to capture the riotous beauty of a rising tornado in a 360-degree video format. Commissioned by Moore, the video was filmed specifically for the Fels Planetarium and will be shown with 8K projection equipment. Lopez considers the tornado as both a devastating natural phenomenon of unstoppable climate change and as a symbol of the swelling media landscape of disinformation.
Developed by the artist over a ten-year period of ideation, research and production, Pandemonium stems from deep collaborations with curators, engineers, animators, musicians, and production teams.
