Chronoform

With the increasing frequency and devastation of fires, earthquakes, heat waves, and floods, we are reminded of the fragility of our climate. We are more and more aware of the massive environment to which we are all intimately connected, but which we barely understand.

Beyond a world of human time, the works in this show probe geologic time and make connections between the two. These connections are explored through themes of mysticism, materiality, and the body, and through ideas of alienation and exposure to the environment.

Wildfire debris, gaping cavities in the earth, molten metals, volcanic rock, earth, and soil are all used as either material or context in this exhibition. Michelle Robinson and Christine Atkinson document the soil and natural disasters as a means of connection to it. Daniel Tovar and Ashton Phillips investigate alienation and geologic time. Zara Kuredjian, Elizabeth Folk, and Kiyomi Fukui Nannery communicate the fragility of the environment and its potential for cultivation.

Together, these works indicate potential avenues for situating ourselves within a new geologic understanding of soil and the individual, of place and time.