FRAMING (THROUGH) ROCKS
A collaboration with Doi De Luise for the Everything is a Rock digital exhibition, 2020.
History is a conventional composition of recollected facts. The reading of documented and archived traces allows to tell stories, narratives and events in the most possible comprehensive way; however, there is a degree of interpretation of those evidences that influences and objective reconstruction of those signs. Often cultural knowledge and experiences generates dogmatic assumption in the way we analyse what we have in front of us. Bias is therefore translated in the way we perceive and read the recorded events.
By looking at rocks in different aspects of the process of documentation of the interrelation between human and natural environment (non-human), we recognised two main generative patterns. From one side the gerontology, which gives a reading of human history from a non-human perspective, and on the other hand, the influence of rocks in human culture, their representation and related cultural productions through them.
The presented archive inquires different approaches to documentation and reconstruction of human history from a methodological position – including non-human participation into it – as well as giving a multiple perspective from the very human point of view by reflecting over notions such a civilisation, colonisation, exploration and knowledge.