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Part 6 of Unconformities project
Digital photography
BH1: 140 x 235 cm (framed)
BH2: 140 x 212 cm (framed)
BH3: 140 x 230 cm (framed)
Bordering the sea, Tripoli’s open-air dump site for unsorted waste from households and small businesses was established more than twenty-five years ago. In other words, the span of a generation. Today it has come to form a set of hills, their highest peak rising at an impressive forty-five meters above sea level. The sedimentation of waste has radically changed the local landscape. A State is photographic compositions created from the superimposition of hundreds of images of drilling cores sourced from the dump site. The hyperrealist effect suggests painterly still-lifes that become increasingly abstract as the material transforms with time. Shredded organic elements decay and dissipate, all that remains of what we leave behind, what is fated to survive us, are techno-fossils whose decomposition spans hundreds of years.
