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Work by Matéa LeBeau

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Matéa LeBeau (B.F.A. '22)

Hometown

Los Angeles, California

My Climate Change Anxiety (2019). For my self-directed digital media project, I wanted to depict the ways in which my daily rituals or habits end up contributing to the seemingly inescapable problem that is climate change. Climate change gives me extreme amounts of anxiety, so my goal for this video was to describe how this issue makes me feel while attempting to make my audience share these anxieties. Through hand-drawn animated segments, I address guilt associated with using dairy or meat products, coffee, single-use cups and plastics, soy, purchasing from fast fashion industries, and unnecessary carbon emissions while explaining how much of an environmental impact these simple decisions can make.

I’m very interested in how art and climate change can work together to create engaging visual content, and I’m eager to continue to find ways in which art can inform my audience about environmentalism and sustainable practices.

Produced for ART 2701 Introduction to Digital Media, taught by Assistant Professor of the Practice in New Media Jaret Vadera.

What Remains (2021) is a personal exploration of extinction in the context of climate change. Through the use and depiction of archaic technologies, petroleum-based materials, photography, and printmaking, the works in this show highlight the nature of extinction as a current contemplation. As nature coexists with abandoned oil infrastructure and integrates its iron remains into the landscape, one can’t help but be reminded that the earth will carry on, with or without us. Reckoning with the long-term, concealed, and deeply integrated influence of the oil industry, What Remains invites you to imagine a world post fossil fuels.

What Remains was displayed in the Experimental Gallery in Olive Tjaden Hall, September 20–24, 2021, and was partially funded by the Gibian-Rosewater Traveling Research Award.

A pink background with the words
Still from My Climate Change Anxiety, digital animation video.
A digital drawing of smoke stacks with money symbols.
Still from My Climate Change Anxiety, digital animation video.
A digital drawing of protest signs.
Still from My Climate Change Anxiety, digital animation video.
A digital drawing of farm fields with red text.
Still from My Climate Change Anxiety, digital animation video.
Hanging fabric panels with black prints on them.
Four Urban Oil Fields (2021), screen prints on a nylon curtain, trash bags, dowel rod, monofilament, dimensions variable, part of What Remains exhibition.
Installation view of two hanging panels and a pedestal with a projector on top.
Installation view of What Remains (2021).
A close up of a projector displaying an image of an abstract artwork.
Backslide (2021), slide projector, 35mm slides, part of What Remains exhibition.
A close up of a projector displaying an image of treetops.
Backslide (2021), slide projector, 35mm slides, part of What Remains exhibition.
A close up of a projector displaying an image of a barrel sitting against a tree.
Backslide (2021), slide projector, 35mm slides, part of What Remains exhibition.
A slide projector sits on a white pedestal and displays an image of a water spigot.
Backslide (2021), slide projector, 35mm slides, part of What Remains exhibition.
Installation view of hanging fabric panels and a wood and fabric sculpture.
Installation view of What Remains (2021).
A wood and fabric sculpture sits on a white pedestal.
Ghost of Drake Well/em> (2021), wood, nylon fabric, 50" x 27" x 45", part of What Remains (2021) exhibition.
Installation view of two artworks. A grid of black paper squares on one wall, and two hanging panels of white fabric.
Installation view of What Remains (2021).
Two hanging fabric sculptures with a grid of black squares on the wall.
Installation view of What Remains (2021).
A grid of black square pieces of paper with threaded patterns.
Refrain on Quilted Paper (2021), lithograph prints, thread, 7' x 8, part of What Remains exhibition.

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