The second itineration of this institutional exhibition, held at Karst Gallery in Plymouth from June 12 to August 1st, curated by ben Borthwick.
Photos are by Dom Moore.
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Faunal Succession is the first institutional UK exhibition by Lucía Pizzani, a Venezuelan artist based in London. The show features new installations, including work created in collaboration with artist Jaime Gili, and musician Javier Weyler. Faunal Succession is touring to three coastal locations across the UK – Focal Point Gallery (Southend), KARST (Plymouth) and Mostyn (Llandudno). At KARST, Pizzani reconfigures the first iteration of the exhibition, shown at Focal Point Gallery, and introduces artifacts connected to the South West from The Box’s natural history collection.
Human trace fossil making, documentation of the plaster wall on the chalk environment.
Pizzani reimagines the British coast through a ‘deep time’ lens, considering Earth’s history on an immense timescale spanning billions of years. She contrasts the gradual formation of Britain’s coastal geology with rapidly evolving contemporary questions of climate change, migration and social transformation. The exhibition title refers to the principle of ‘faunal succession’: the observation of patterns in fossils that allows geologists to accurately date sedimentary rock layers so they can establish chronological timelines. 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.