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Future Fossils

7 Oct-11 Nov 2021

Alice Black Gallery
London W1W 7RL

Overview

ATALANTA ARDEN MILLER

RACHAEL LOUISE BAILEY

DANTE ELSNER

MATTHEW HARRIS

MILO KESTER

HELENA PRITCHARD

JOL THOMS

WILL THOMSON

“Perhaps above all, the Anthropocene compels us to think forwards in deep time, and to weigh what we will leave behind, as the landscapes we are making now will sink into the strata becoming the underlands. What is the history of things to come? What will be our future fossils? As we have amplified our ability to shape the world, so we become more responsible for the long afterlives of that shaping. The Anthropocene asks of us the question memorably posed by the immunologist Jonas Salk: 'Are we being good ancestors?”

from Robert Macfarland’s “Underland”, 2019