Nonetheless, ruangrupa’s rhetoric of healing has been uncritically amplified in art criticism—from the New York Times to Hyperallergic—which repeats the desiderata of many art practices dedicated to environmental restoration without mentioning, let alone proposing ways to address, the causality behind the ever-worsening disasters of climate breakdown, mass extinction, and related sociopolitical crises.

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