Making the invisible visible

In the project 60 wrd/min art critic , writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviews Xingyu Huang’s video Beneath Breathing , featuring footage collected from the Chicago River.

Xingyu Huang

One challenge of the environmental movement has been the difficulty of convincing people of the need to protect that which they cannot easily see. A fragile ecosystem might be too far away, the quality of air and water utterly microscopic, the worst effects of a major pollutant so many years off. Enter artists, masters of making the invisible visible, among them Xingyu Huang. Ove