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Tomás Saraceno

Argentine

1973, Tucumán, Argentina

Argentinian artist and architect Tomás Saraceno discusses his installation at SFMOMA, Stillness in Motion—Cloud Cities (2016). He describes how the piece illustrates his vision of “future flying cities” built in collaboration with spiders and other nonhumans, inviting visitors to imagine radical, alternative ways of living on Earth.

This video originally appeared on sfmoma.org as “Tomás Saraceno: Building “future flying cities” with spiders”

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