Opening: 10.03.2023, 19.00
Exhibition: 11.03–11.06.2023
Place: BWA Wrocław Główny Gallery, Piłsudskiego 105, Wroclaw
Curatorial guided tour: 11.03.2023, 11.00
Journey to the Center of the Earth takes the form of a visual essay, in which art illustrates the human relationship with the earth’s entrails. Julius Verne’s 1864 novel is the exhibition’s starting point
The invited artists explore the human approach to geological resources; the display calls to mind the natural history museums of the past. The works feature visions of subterranean worlds and the origins of life, as well as addressing the issue of fossil fuel extraction and combustion, processes that strictly determine the conditions of politico-economic life. Humans are presented in relation to the underground – with its resources, rocks, minerals and archaeological artefacts. The exhibition proposes a reading of Verne’s book by applying today’s knowledge of Anthropocene – the era appropriated by humans, and of the consequences of the planet’s transformations.
Kateryna Aliinyk is among the artists invited for the Journey to the Center of the Earth. The exhibition is curated by Joanna Kobyłt.
Source: BWA Wrocław
Kateryna Aliinyk, Ukrainian River, 2022, acrylic on canvas