Opening on March 21st in Southend the exhibition will travel to KARST, Plymouth, from 11 June to 1 August 2026 and Mostyn, Llandudno in Spring 2027.
Venezuelan-born, London-based artist Lucía Pizzani presents her first institutional UK exhibition at Focal Point Gallery in Southend-on-Sea. Through a series of new installations and in collaboration with artists Cecilia Bonilla, Jaime Gili and local community groups and schools, Pizzani reimagines the Essex coast through a ‘deep time’ lens, linking geological transformation with contemporary questions of climate change, migration, and social transformation.
Faunal Succession is formed of three environments that merge installation, sculpture, painting, sound, and community participation. Each space references the geological strata of coastal Britain and its living organisms, combining scientific and poetic interpretations of the landscape. The exhibition title refers to the principle of faunal succession: the observation of chronological patterns in fossils that allows geologists to accurately date sedimentary rock layers. For Pizzani, this physical manifestation of ‘deep time’ becomes a framework for rethinking contemporary human and ecological crises, revealing borders and national identities as constructed and recent concepts.