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acclaimed, ultimately proved problematic due to a number of devices. Through objects, buildings, infrastructures, and
reasons. Spanning the 1970s to the present, the works in this control systems, design modulates energy’s capture, flow, and
gallery consider architecture’s capacity to give shape to the consumption, and acts as both a transformer and a preserver
political, social, and cultural dimensions of our communities of the most vital forces in our planet.
and the worlds they inhabit. Designers whose work will be featured in this gallery, including
Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen, Design Earth (Rania Ghosn
Energy is the inaugural installation in MoMA’s new street-level and El Hadi Jazairy), Tokujin Yoshioka, Massoud Hassani, and
gallery, which is free and open to all on the expanded ground Ingo Maurer, represent the diversity of the collection’s holdings.
floor of the Jerry Speyer and Katherine Farley Building. It will In addition, Surrounds: 11 Installations, in the sixth-floor
explore energy in different forms, from thermal and kinetic Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions,
to electrical, solar, and even reproductive. The IEC power will present for the first time 11 watershed installations by
symbol, a familiar icon associated with regulating the flow of living artists from the past two decades, all drawn from the
energy, will be on display in the window, declaring the Museum Museum’s collection. The exhibition includes Sou Fujimoto’s
to be a space that is fully “on”—engaged with present-day Architecture Is Everywhere (2015), a large-scale, single-room
concerns, productive, and in constant action. Some of the work that uses unexpected materials, including potato chips,
works on view make energy’s finiteness visible and urgent, to construct miniature architectural models; and Sheila Hicks’s
addressing environmental and geopolitical concerns. Others monumental Pillar of Inquiry/Supple Column (2013–14), a textile
represent energy’s relationship to power of all kinds, including work that welcomes visitors to the floor and playfully and
political and financial. Examples from the collection range subversively challenges notions of architecture as permanent,
from a mine detonator to a visualization of wind flow over the solid, and tectonic.
territory of the United States; from lighting fixtures to visionary All installations are organized by the Department of
architectural drawings; and from solar- to human-powered Architecture and Design.

Installation view of Taking a Thread for a Walk, The Museum of Modern Art,
New York. © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Denis Doorly

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