Sarcophagus

An exhibition data-mapping the ways in which different ground types at Chornobyl’s Reactor 4 hold memory of the nuclear disaster.

Plotted as a bridal tapestry, the data measures radioactivity readings of raw earth at the Sarcophagus, against the readings from concrete laid before and after 1986.

Polyptych View:
Sarcophagus
Pin-holes on paper, 606 x 75 cm, 2018
Private Collections

The collective tapestry of landscape memory retention is plotted through the visual languages of pin-holes on paper as they relate to both familial lineages of lace-making, as well as the technique used by fellow bee-keepers to merge hives.

In the following series, this is made in reference to the plural oral histories of bee-keepers as being the first in the Chornobyl zone to sense that something had gone awry, as bees mysteriously retreated deep into their boxes, though the 26th of April 1986 had been a calm and sunny day.

 

Artwork View:
Topographic Radioactivity, Unpaved Earth I
Pin-holes on paper, 75 x 101 cm, 2017
Private Collection

Artwork View:
Topographic Radioactivity, Concrete Ground Laid Pre-1986 I
Pin-holes on paper, 75 x 101 cm, 2017
Private Collection

Artwork View:
Topographic Radioactivity, Concrete Ground Laid Post-1986 I
Pin-holes on paper, 75 x 101 cm, 2017
Private Collection

Artwork View:
Topographic Radioactivity, Concrete Ground Laid Post-1986 II
Pin-holes on paper, 75 x 101 cm, 2017
Private Collection

Artwork View:
Topographic Radioactivity, Concrete Ground Laid Pre-1986 II
Pin-holes on paper, 75 x 101 cm, 2017
Private Collection

Artwork View:
Topographic Radioactivity, Unpaved Earth II
Pin-holes on paper, 75 x 101 cm, 2017
Private Collection

Installation View: Heide MoMA
Terra Data, Career Survey
20 March – 20 June, 2021
Curator: Lesley Harding

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First Exhibited: China Heights Gallery
28 April – 30 May, 2017

Framer: United Measures

Artwork Photographer: Matthew R. Stanton
Installation Photographer: Gavin Green 

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