Other Landscape
2022-2023
On the surface of the land, a group of black oxidized pyramidal structures covered with sweats of oil and tar stand open-top. Empty, isolated and marginal forms, similar to ziggurats or industrial chimneys, stand waiting in a silent landscape. Within each structure, hollow and deep terrains absorb the light. These voids in space are stripped of their meaning. Under this imagined city, lies another structure of oil pipes woven deep into the ground exposing an invisible world more powerful. This space has become violated, in which the violation is tolerated, becoming more widespread, and threatening the entire society; causing political, economic and environmental chaos. This work explores a speculative rendering of a post-oil future. If we are currently digging up deeply rooted antiquities for the understanding of the origin of human life, how will future archaeology reveal the chaos of subterranean oil pipes below our land? What will remain? What is our heritage for the future?
