800 – Art Exhibit

There are approximately 800 million people living in extreme poverty today. As a percent of the global population that’s roughly 10%. That percentage 100 years ago was closer to 60%. We should work toward ending extreme global poverty to increase people’s opportunity to realize their innate human potential. This would increase global stability, commerce, and innovation, while reducing human suffering.

To gain a sense of the scale of the 800 million people currently living in extreme poverty today, artwork in this exhibit uses installations in sculpture, video, augmented reality, and print, to show pieces exploring sensations of space and form through agglomerations of 800.

This exhibit is a fundraiser for the Borgen Project. The Borgen Project is an advocacy organization for the global poor. They organize support and lobby governments worldwide for various bills to end extreme poverty.