Kapwani Kiwanga takes the concept of Pangaea Ultima as a starting point for this multi-faceted installation entitled Soft Measures. Based off the fact that Europe is moving towards Africa … Read More
Kapwani Kiwanga takes the concept of Pangaea Ultima as a starting point for this multi-faceted installation entitled Soft Measures. Based off the fact that Europe is moving towards Africa at the rate of approximately 2 cm per year, scientist suggest that a supercontinent, so-called Pangaea Ultima, will form with Europe slipping underneath Africa. The installation imagines speculative fictions getting stretched thin through a perspective of deep geological time.
Monumental curtains meet, as tectonic planes might, whilst additional elements incorporating rocks and matter further probe the underlying thematic currents of the work. In this way the artworks become protagonists that operate as tectonic plates, independent but moving along one another – pushing closer or pulling away.
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