Josh Kline, Caroline Maxwell, and others
Capture and Sequestration
2023
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- Artist: Josh Kline
- Producer: Caroline Maxwell
- Director of photography: Eric K. Yue
- Production designer: Lawrence Pollman
- Special effects artist: Roger Matsuo
- Sound designer: Miho Hatori
- Art department assistant: Wayne Garrick
- First assistant camera: Jordan Pollak
- Second assistant camera: Bruno Pescina
- Second assistant camera: Michel Alanis
- Key grip: Nathan Trumbull
- Gaffer: Joann Wong
- Artist: Nathan Trumbull
- Production assistant: Eyerus Dessie
- Production assistant: Mason Kalei
- Production collaborator: Ambika Trasi
- Media manager: Sara Carter Conley
- Editor: Sara Carter Conley
- Editor: Josh Kline
- Colorist: Sara Carter Conley
- Foley artist: Jared Arnold
- Motion graphics designer: Sara Carter Conley
- Rotoscope designer: Ken Igarashi
- Rotoscope designer: Sara Carter Conley
Capture and Sequestration
2023
Physical Qualities
Four-channel high-definition video (color, sound), Duration: 9:52 min.
Credit Line
Ellen W. P. Wasserman Acquisitions Endowment
Object Number
2025.6
Josh Kline uses video, installation, and emerging technologies to explore the social and political forces shaping living conditions in the 21st century. In Capture and Sequestration, he turns to four commodities—sugar, tobacco, cotton, and oil—whose roles in fueling the rise of the United States as a global superpower are deeply entwined with histories of slavery, Indigenous dispossession, and industrial extraction.
The looping sequence references carbon capture, a proposed method for solving carbon emissions, as a metaphor for reckoning with the long-term consequences of extraction. Capture and Sequestration presents these inherited systems of harm not as relics of a distant past, but as active forces shaping the present and future.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2025; art hall, Baltimore
art hall, "Capture and Sequestration," October 12, 2024 to December 7, 2024.
Jessica Bell Brown, Cecilia Wichmann, and Leila Grothe, with Antoinette Roberts, Oscar Flores-Montero, Dylan Kaleikaumaka Hill, and Maura Callahan, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Crosscurrents: Works from the Contemporary Collection," February 26, 2025 to September 3, 2026; work on view from July 11, 2025 to September 3, 2026.
Jessica Bell Brown, Cecilia Wichmann, and Leila Grothe, with Antoinette Roberts, Oscar Flores-Montero, Dylan Kaleikaumaka Hill, and Maura Callahan, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Crosscurrents: Works from the Contemporary Collection," February 26, 2025 to September 3, 2026; work on view from July 11, 2025 to September 3, 2026.
Artist
Josh Kline
b. 1978
Producer
Caroline Maxwell
Director of photography
Eric K. Yue
Production designer
Lawrence Pollman
Special effects artist
Roger Matsuo
Sound designer
Miho Hatori
Art department assistant
Wayne Garrick
First assistant camera
Jordan Pollak
Second assistant camera
Bruno Pescina
Second assistant camera
Michel Alanis
Key grip
Nathan Trumbull
Gaffer
Joann Wong
Artist
Nathan Trumbull
Production assistant
Eyerus Dessie
Production assistant
Mason Kalei
Production collaborator
Ambika Trasi
Media manager
Sara Carter Conley
Editor
Sara Carter Conley
Editor
Josh Kline
b. 1978
Colorist
Sara Carter Conley
Foley artist
Jared Arnold
Motion graphics designer
Sara Carter Conley
Rotoscope designer
Ken Igarashi
Rotoscope designer
Sara Carter Conley
