Wait
2017

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inkjet prints, drawing, glacial rock (pumice and slate), found metal object, looped video

installation view from Galerie 207, Prague, May 2017
 

The point of departure for the exhibition Wait was a glacial rock of pumice and slate found by the artist whilst walking in Finse, Norway. The rock, taken out of context as the emblematic fragment, was placed in three forms throughout the gallery. On the stairs up to the gallery, the original rock props up a repetitive text piece, also the title of the show ‘We are in time'. At the top of the stairs a photograph of the rock where it was found was juxtaposed with a photograph of an aesthetically similar archeological item, but this time from human construction - a concrete and iron fragment. In the corner of the gallery a large graphite drawing of the rock confronted the viewer on a human scale, the floating form somehow appearing anatomical in its construction. Next to the drawing were hung three enlarged photographic prints of pieces of glass found in a ruined factory which had been photogrammed in the dark room and then scanned. These seductive black monolithic prints hinted at the science fiction, at the monumental, at the first tool, at the fragment, at the archaeological. They acted as open poetic devices that were left for contemplation in the mind of the viewer. Throughout the exhibition various photographic pairings juxtaposed the glacial and the industrial. Another text piece, repeating the words ‘We are on fire’ was pinned down underneath a fragment of factory wreckage, creating a dynamic urgency between the two text pieces through repetition and difference. The intent of the work was a poetic investigation into the similarities and juxtapositions between natural and human archaeological items within the context of Anthropocene related anxieties.