Episode 2 Preview | Realms of the Real
Preview: Season 12 Episode 2 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
A group of international artists push everyday materials into the fantastical, absurd and sublime.
Viewers travel from a banana plantation in Reykjavik, Iceland, to a former Agfa photographic film factory in Berlin to Argentina’s “Lithium Triangle” with featured artists Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Ragnar Kjartansson, Candice Lin and Tomás Saraceno. “Realms of the Real” premieres in early 2026.
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Episode 2 Preview | Realms of the Real
Preview: Season 12 Episode 2 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Viewers travel from a banana plantation in Reykjavik, Iceland, to a former Agfa photographic film factory in Berlin to Argentina’s “Lithium Triangle” with featured artists Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Ragnar Kjartansson, Candice Lin and Tomás Saraceno. “Realms of the Real” premieres in early 2026.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[Njideka VO] I love having openings in the work that lead into other worlds.
[Tomás VO] This cosmic web, where we share that possibility of shifting and changing.
♪uplifting music♪ [Candice VO] Taking the real or historical aspects, but then imagining: what are the stories that are lost in the archives?
[Ragnar VO] The magical and and the mundane, in conversation.
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