November 22 - January 26, 2020
“Based on Eeraerts’s research in Japan, Dorotabo focuses notions of regeneration found in myths, technology, and earth’s history to articulate how humanity is inextricably tied to nature. The title references the folkloric story of toiling farmers’s ghosts transforming into mud spirits that haunt improperly maintained rice fields. Eeraerts takes inspiration from this Japanese lore as a fundamental way in which humanity can understand our connection with nature and the current phenomena of our ecological crisis.
Soil has been an enduring medium to contemplate the relationship of culture with natural matter for the Artist. Delving deeper into the historical and material salience of soil, Eeraerts employs techniques that inform historical pedogenesis. Large scale silk screen prints of soil peels near Tomakomai reveal a history stretching well beyond our own to elucidate seismic disturbances that indicate traces of volcanos and tsunamis. Connecting the past with the present, we see how human activity and even part our identity is interrelated to natural disasters.
In the same way Eeraerts studies nature’s impact on human culture, she likewise explores human material interventions that impart transformation. Boron carbide, a ceramic used to mitigate the effects of radiation, serves as a foundation for her geometric and material investigations in Dorotabo. In a similar way that nature restores itself from seismic shifts, it can be observed how human processes cycle from pollution to remediation. This overlap is distinctly pointed towards with the use of boron carbide powder as the printing material for her prints Dorotabo (volcano) and Dorotabo (tsunami). Additionally, she observes boron carbide’s molecular geometric resemblance to the stretched cube, a recurrent motif for the Artist. Works composed of boron carbide and geometric elements of the stretched cube demonstrate an interconnection between the artist, natural matter, and technology.”
Opening: November 22, 2019 | 6–8 pm
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