Whitney Biennial 2026 | Art & Artists

Oswaldo Maciá makes sculpture by shaping space with sound and smell. Here he immerses visitors in a symphony playing from speakers hidden inside glass megaphones that spiral down from the ceiling. Paintings loosely modeled after eighteenth-century naturalists’ field sketches form a backdrop for Requiem for the Insects. The composition weaves together the sounds of insects and shattering glass across sixteen different audio channels—an invitation to reflect on the extinction of insects and the loss of their calls.