GENEVIEVE ROBERTSON

Catalogue accompanying Genevieve Robertson’s exhibition Looking Through A Hole in the Earth, showing three bodies of work: Carbon Studies, Language for the Wrack Zone and Sea Change. Developed from her experiences and interactions with individuals in different landscapes, Robertson is interested in “deep time,” the immense pre-human history of the planet, most notably exemplified by her use of materials gathered during hikes, visits to local mines or received as gifts, including forest-fire derived charcoal, Bitumen, marine engine oil, blue-green algae, calcium carbonate and seawater, all directly linked to each region’s land and resource politics.