{"id":13186,"date":"2026-07-22T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=13186"},"modified":"2026-07-13T10:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:51:19","slug":"firelei-baez-feet-squelching-on-wet-grass-nourished-by-uncertainty-hauser-wirth-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/22\/firelei-baez-feet-squelching-on-wet-grass-nourished-by-uncertainty-hauser-wirth-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Firelei Baez, &#8216;Feet Squelching on Wet Grass, Nourished by Uncertainty,&#8217; Hauser &#038; Wirth Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A text written by a theoretical physicist at the entrance to Firelei Baez\u2019s exhibition at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hauserwirth.com\/hauser-wirth-exhibitions\/firelei-baez\/\">Hauser and Wirth Gallery<\/a> invites gallery visitors to consider life on the minute scale of a cell, then flip to acknowledge our sun as one tiny star amid billions.\u00a0 Similarly, Baez sets up a mind-bending contrast between human attempts at understanding nature, represented by historic charts and diagrams, and spiritual forces that defy those efforts, represented by the bodies of powerful, goddess-like characters which she superimposes on the schematics.\u00a0 Over an architectural drawing for an incinerator located in New Orleans, a full-figured woman with nebula-like purple, blue and red skin and a head covered by or made up of foliage appears to awaken and rise, as if in response to the damage inflicted by the building.\u00a0 In the main gallery, stretching across the long back wall, Baez paints scenes of splashing water and abundant plant life over a mid-19<sup>th<\/sup>century diagram that charts the climate in locations around the world.\u00a0 In complete contrast to the measurable predictability suggested by the diagram, nature breaks forth in beautiful, energetic defiance of the systems of knowledge that would seek to know and exploit it.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through July 31<sup>st<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3684px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/069d3d2f-efaf-40be-59c3-67351377686a.jpg\" alt=\"View of a very long painting on the wall in orange, green, blue colors and more with a person standing before it.\" width=\"3684\" height=\"2734\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firelei Baez, View of Nature (Existing not in the cycles themselves but only in the interactions of the cycles), oil and acrylic on archival printed canvas, 103 x 75 5\/8 x 1 \u00bd inches each panel (8 panels total), 2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 2943px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/cffc3633-6e92-957e-6ce2-f01e1b1bfd14.jpg\" alt=\"Close up of the painting, featuring the name 'Singapore' surrounded by leaves and flowers.\" width=\"2943\" height=\"3126\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firelei Baez, View of Nature (Existing not in the cycles themselves but only in the interactions of the cycles), oil and acrylic on archival printed canvas, 103 x 75 5\/8 x 1 \u00bd inches each panel (8 panels total), 2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A text written by a theoretical physicist at the entrance to Firelei Baez\u2019s exhibition at Hauser and Wirth Gallery invites gallery visitors to consider life on the minute scale of a cell, then flip to acknowledge our sun as one tiny star amid billions.\u00a0 Similarly, Baez sets up a mind-bending contrast between human attempts at &hellip; 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