Magdalena Dukiewicz: Bloom

Magdalena Dukiewicz’s immersive sound installation Bloom transforms Wave Hill’s Sun Porch into a dystopian landscape where vitality and contamination entwine. Breathing is sonified through data-driven sound, modulated by New York City’s air quality monitors to make pollution audible and visceral. Sculptural blooms fashioned from rain-filled Poland Spring jugs, wood ear mushrooms, copper filament, and the artist’s own hair evoke both healing and toxicity, while windows sheathed in a crimson, skin-like biomaterial crack and peel over time, revealing the garden beyond. Situated within a borough marked by stark environmental disparities—including some of the nation’s highest asthma hospitalization rates—Bloom confronts environmental racism while meditating on the porous boundaries between body and environment, contamination and renewal. Interactive programming by Ruimin Liang.

Organized by Curator of Visual Arts Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger, the Sunroom Project Space is an open call opportunity for New York-area artists to develop and exhibit a site-specific project as a solo exhibition. The 2025 applications were reviewed by a panel of arts professionals including Jordany Genao, a Dominican interdisciplinary artist and educator; Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, an artist whose practice unfolds performatively through creative experiences within the quotidian, and the founding director of The Interior Beauty Salon, an organism at the intersection of creativity and healing; and Gugelberger.

PUBLIC PROGRAM Saturday, October 25 2:30 PM, Meet the Artist: Soundscape activation with the artist, and performance by Paul S. Ray.