Time Capsules
- AboutTime Capsules, 2017
Part 2 of Unconformities project
Core samples in experimental resin,
15 x 155 x 15 cm Matter extracted from core samples – soil, rocks, clay, limestone – is carefully stored for analysis by engineers, prior to any construction on a site. Once the study is complete, these materials are usually discarded. Guided by archeologists and geologists, the artists collected and re-sculpted these remains, extracted from the underground of cities and selected for their historical and personal resonance. These remnants of buried worlds make visible the imprints of successive human occupations, ecological upheavals, and lost civilizations. History does not unfold as a coherent succession of chronological layers, but rather as a dynamic entanglement of epochs – marked by ruptures, where traces and civilizations intermingle. Through poetic re-composition, the artists question the way imaginaries of ancient history are constructed, and the fluctuation between cycles of destruction, catastrophe and regeneration. - Other Installations
This installation features works titled Time Capsules and Trilogies, both of which explore what lies beneath – beneath the grounds of the Sursock Museum, the surrounding neighborhood, and extending outward toward the city center. The Eleonas Time Capsules unfold narratives of geological turbulence and industrial contamination, tracing the transformation of a landscape once covered in olive groves.
