Several eternities in a day: form in the age of living materials features twenty-two artists from North, Central, and South America who embrace the unpredictable nature of living materials. These artists use materials such as avocado, cacao, achiote, cochineal, stone, clay, and natural dyes to create large-scale installations, paintings, works on paper, and mixed-media sculpture. Each of these materials is alive—they evolve, decay, drip, crumble, and evaporate. They are rooted in the spirit, memory, and knowledge of Brown and Indigenous worlds. The exhibition considers ideas around materials as records of the living and repositories of cosmic memory, organic decay and transformation.

Bringing together a wide range of artistic practices, the exhibition explores materiality as a living process rather than a static condition. The participating artists engage substances that continually change over time, allowing transformation, impermanence and environmental forces to become integral components of the works themselves. Through these evolving materials, the exhibition challenges conventional ideas of permanence while foregrounding relationships between artistic practice, ecology and ancestral knowledge.

Several eternities in a day: form in the age of living materials proposes a vision of matter as both witness and participant in the cycles of life. The works invite viewers to consider how memory, spirituality and cultural histories are embedded within natural materials, revealing connections between human experience and the broader rhythms of the living world. Together, the exhibition offers a powerful reflection on regeneration, decay and continuity, presenting living materials as carriers of both collective memory and future possibility.