galerie PLUTO

In Conversation with…Eduardo Restrepo

Colombian Eco-Photographer

“Part Three” premieres Sunday, January 14th

Time: 12pm PST | 2pm GMT-5 | 9pm CEST

In April 2022, galerie PLUTO director Dr Jeremy Wasser interviewed Colombian photographer and filmmaker Eduardo Restrepo and his son and guitarist Julián Restrepo. The interview, held in Köln, Germany, highlighted Eduardo Restrepo's lifetime work in the Colombian Highlands and his commitment to the ecosystems and peoples of his homeland.

In the summer of 2023, galerie PLUTO worked with Eduardo Restrepo and Julián Restrepo to provide additional resources and information in support of the previous interview. From these collaborations, a two-part interview and photography video were produced. Learn about the talented and well-traveled Eduardo Restrepo in his own words in “In Conversation with…Eduardo Restrepo.”

Healing Spaces

HOSPITAL ROOMS and SEN SOUND in Conversation

The galerie PLUTO event, Healing Spaces: Sen Sound and Hospital Rooms in Conversation, brought together two pairs of remarkable individuals who, collectively are using art to change the visual and aural landscape of healthcare spaces. PLUTO director, Dr. Jeremy Wasser moderated a discussion that centered around how improving the sensory experience of hospital spaces can impact patient well-being and improve clinical outcomes.

Hospital Rooms was founded in 2016 by artist Tim A Shaw and curator Niamh White after a close friend was committed to a locked mental health ward. They were shocked by how stark, cold, clinical and inhuman the environment on the ward was. The charity now runs award-winning projects bringing extraordinary art and creative activity to inpatient mental health wards.

Sen Sound is a human-centered audio design studio with a mission to transform the sound environment in hospitals. The team is composed of sound designers, musicians, and researchers who specialize in improving the sound experience in healthcare environments. Sen Sound has partnered with hospital systems such as Kaiser Permanente, medical device companies such as Medtronic, and its work has been featured in The New York Times, BBC, and STAT.

Only What We Love

Understanding Materials as Shared Narrative

Jane Brucker & Dr. Jeremy Wasser

Hosted by Trier University of Applied Sciences

How can a desire for sustainable living manifest in an ethical art practice without being driven by store bought materials or limited to natural materials such as rocks and sticks? Can material choices contribute to the creation of individual or shared narratives that satisfy our human need for continuity and placemaking on a disturbingly fast-changing planet? Artist Jane Brucker’s material choices are a response to this poetic and ecological challenge. In this presentation, Brucker and her partner/collaborator, biologist and historian of medicine Dr. Jeremy Wasser, marry science and aesthetics to discuss an approach to materials that embrace an ethic of care as a critical social aspect of sustainability. They take as inspiration a quote from the great Senegalese forestry engineer Baba Dioum he notes,

“In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.”