2019 / ART O-68
Ore Body
Duo expo Sibylle Eimermacher & Karen Vermeren, Art Gallery O-68, Velp, the Netherlands
2019, April 28 - June 2, Thu - Su, 3 - 5 pm and on appointment, except May 16-19
Finissage Sunday June 2, 3 - 5 pm
Presentation Artist Book 'Reverse Geology' by Karen Vermeren
Text: Elke Couchez
Graphic Design: Louis Lüthi
Publisher: Stockmans Publications
Supported by AIR Berlin Alexanderplatz, Yellow Press, Sint Lucas School of Arts Antwerp, Kunsten & Erfgoed Vlaanderen
ISBN : 9789077207680
Paperback, Soft Cover, 88 p, A4, Price 25€
Available i.a. in Copyright Bookshop Gent, Books People Places Berlin, Motto Bookshop Berlin and online: Stockmans, Motto
view a fragment here 1:15, or the full version here 2:31
fragment by Elke Couchez:
"By way of a concluding remark, it is difficult not to touch on recent debates about the ‘geological turn’. Scientists from multiple fields have announced a new geological age, the so-called Anthropocene, succeeding the Holocene. They argue that in this new era, the single force influencing the planet is man’s impact on the earth, for instance in terms of affecting weather patterns and planetary biodiversity. Although Vermeren does not directly point to the disastrous environmental consequences of this man-centred era, her work raises questions about the various factors – physical, social, political, economic, cultural – that act upon and transform the earth. Instead of looking at the organic processes that have shaped the earth, as geologists do, she uses stones to consider the anthropogenic processes that shape our environment. This book can thus be read as a case of reverse geology, reading time not backwards, into the deep geological time of the past, but forwards. And it thereby poses the fairly urgent question of how artists can creatively and critically respond to a changing geologic now......"
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