Guernica interviews Texas-based artist Dario Robleto about his exhibit at the Des Moines Art Center Survival Does Not Lie in the Heavens. Robleto touches on his interest in mourning or “the creative response to loss,” the process of alteration, and human-induced extinction as a moral problem.
“What occurred to me was, had anyone tried to pinpoint the first case of human-induced extinction? What was the first time we as species pushed another one to oblivion? I would argue that’s probably going to be one of the defining moral problems of the century, human-induced extinction.”
