Public Things
a group exhibition for Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva - organized by Conrad Bakker
exhibition dates: March 18 - May 12, 2010, Opening Reception: Thursday, March 18

RYAN THOMPSONGlacial Erratics: Genevais a series of stereographic animations, photographs, and videos that regard the erratic displacement of rocks by both glacial and human forces. Erratic rocks often become ‘public things’ through their appropriation and use, from religious rituals to cartographic landmarks to tourist attractions (as evidenced by Les Pierres du Niton in Lac Léman). Although their placement and form is geologically temporary, these rocks feel strangely permanent when contrasted with the erratic nature of the objects, ideas, and people which move around them. translation/pdf

RYAN THOMPSON
Glacial Erratics: Genevais a series of stereographic animations, photographs, and videos that regard the erratic displacement of rocks by both glacial and human forces. Erratic rocks often become ‘public things’ through their appropriation and use, from religious rituals to cartographic landmarks to tourist attractions (as evidenced by Les Pierres du Niton in Lac Léman). Although their placement and form is geologically temporary, these rocks feel strangely permanent when contrasted with the erratic nature of the objects, ideas, and people which move around them.

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