MoMA at Moynihan

Peggy Weil

88 Cores
2017

“The pace of climate change is too slow to apprehend,” says artist Peggy Weil, “and its substances—gases like methane and CO2—are invisible.” A trailblazer of digital art, Weil has recently turned her attention to what she calls Extended Landscapes: portraits of the invisible layers “beneath our feet, above our heads, and back in time.” Her work reveals the planet to be a recording device, inscribing climatic and geological events into polar ice sheets and sedimentary strata. From the youngest snow to the oldest ice, 88 Cores descends two miles and 110,000 years through Greenland’s ice sheet, where time is preserved in vertical bands of ice, air, and gas. Through this vertical time capsule, Weil makes the physical evidence of environmental shifts perceptible and undeniable.

About the MoMA at Moynihan partnership

Moynihan Train Hall is a visionary project that transformed the more than 100-year-old James A. Farley Post Office Building into a state-of-the-art transit hub. The city’s newest civic icon features a grand 92-foot-high skylight, a high-tech passenger experience, and a museum-quality public art program. The MoMA at Moynihan partnership connects the public and passengers with MoMA’s collection of modern and contemporary works of art.