Immersive video installation by John Akomfrah on view at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
(Artdaily.org)

The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting, together with the contemporary art foundation TBA21 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary), an immersive video installation by award-winning British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah titled Purple. Through six large-format screens Akomfrah explores the effects of climate change and its consequence for biodiversity on the planet’s different communities through both archival footage and newly shot film. The work is co-commissioned by TBA21-Academy, which promotes advocacy for ocean conservation through cross-disciplinary programs and artistic production. Part of the museum’s 25th anniversary celebrations, the installation marks the first collaboration with the foundation established by Francesca von Habsburg, daughter of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza. Throughout