Thickens, pools, flows, rushes, slows

Thickens, pools, flows, rushes, slows, 2020

Spat up from the belly of the earth in volcanic eruptions, lava cools rapidly to form obsidian, a congealed liquid whose reflective powers have long entranced cultures. Dark obsidian mirrors delivered omens to the Aztec and pleasantly distorted landscapes for Romantic painters. Sculpted from large blocks of obsidian punctuated by polished concave dishes Thickens, pools, flows, rushes, slows unearths these complex histories and invites us to gaze beyond the surface into deep time.

Text by Dehlia Hannah

Thickens, pools, flows, rushes, slows, Installation View: Kunsthaus Aargau, Aarau, Switzerland, 2020

Exhibition: Controlled Burn, Langen Foundation
Controlled Burn
Panchronic Garden
Exhibition: Erratic, SFMOMA
Exhibition: Soothsayers, Dittrich & Schlechtriem
Exhibition: Concentrations 63: Julian Charrière, Towards No Earthly Pole, Dallas Museum of Art
Thickens, pools, flows, rushes, slows
We Are All Astronauts
Exhibition: Weight of Shadows – Prix Marcel Duchamp 2021, Centre Pompidou
Exhibition: Towards No Earthly Pole, Aargauer Kunsthaus
Exhibition: Viva Arte Viva - 57th Venice Biennale 2017
Iroojrilik
Metamorphism
Exhibition: An Invitation to Disappear, Kunsthalle Mainz
An Invitation to Disappear
Exhibition: As We Used to Float, Berlinische Galerie
Ever Since We Crawled Out
Exhibition: First Light, Galerie Tschudi
Tropisme
First Light
Exhibition: Pitch Drop, Sies + Höke
Terminal Beach
A Sky Taste of Rock
Clockwork
Objects in Mirror Might Be Closer Than They Appear
Somehow, They Never Stop Doing What They Always Did
The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories
Exhibition: For They That Sow the Wind, Parasol Unit
The Key to the Present Lay in the Future
On The Sidewalk
Some Pigeons Are More Equal Than Others
Panorama
Polygon
The Purchase of the South Pole
Future Fossil Spaces
I Am Afraid, I Must Ask You to Leave
Somewhere
Exhibition: Towards No Earthly Pole, MASI Lugano
Exhibition: Future Fossil Spaces, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
Where Waters Meet
Towards No Earthly Pole
And Beneath It All Flows Liquid Fire
Exhibition: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere, MAMBo Bologna
In the Real World It Doesn't Happen That Perfectly
Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Exhibition: Controlled Burn, Langen Foundation
Controlled Burn
Panchronic Garden
Exhibition: Erratic, SFMOMA
Exhibition: Soothsayers, Dittrich & Schlechtriem
Exhibition: Concentrations 63: Julian Charrière, Towards No Earthly Pole, Dallas Museum of Art
Thickens, pools, flows, rushes, slows
We Are All Astronauts
Exhibition: Weight of Shadows – Prix Marcel Duchamp 2021, Centre Pompidou
Exhibition: Towards No Earthly Pole, Aargauer Kunsthaus
Exhibition: Viva Arte Viva - 57th Venice Biennale 2017
Iroojrilik
Metamorphism
Exhibition: An Invitation to Disappear, Kunsthalle Mainz
An Invitation to Disappear
Exhibition: As We Used to Float, Berlinische Galerie
Ever Since We Crawled Out
Exhibition: First Light, Galerie Tschudi
Tropisme
First Light
Exhibition: Pitch Drop, Sies + Höke
Terminal Beach
A Sky Taste of Rock
Clockwork
Objects in Mirror Might Be Closer Than They Appear
Somehow, They Never Stop Doing What They Always Did
The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories
Exhibition: For They That Sow the Wind, Parasol Unit
The Key to the Present Lay in the Future
On The Sidewalk
Some Pigeons Are More Equal Than Others
Panorama
Polygon
The Purchase of the South Pole
Future Fossil Spaces
I Am Afraid, I Must Ask You to Leave
Somewhere
Exhibition: Towards No Earthly Pole, MASI Lugano
Exhibition: Future Fossil Spaces, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
Where Waters Meet
Towards No Earthly Pole
And Beneath It All Flows Liquid Fire
Exhibition: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere, MAMBo Bologna
In the Real World It Doesn't Happen That Perfectly
Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Exhibition: Controlled Burn, Langen Foundation
Controlled Burn
Panchronic Garden
Exhibition: Erratic, SFMOMA
Exhibition: Soothsayers, Dittrich & Schlechtriem
Exhibition: Concentrations 63: Julian Charrière, Towards No Earthly Pole, Dallas Museum of Art
Thickens, pools, flows, rushes, slows
We Are All Astronauts
Exhibition: Weight of Shadows – Prix Marcel Duchamp 2021, Centre Pompidou
Exhibition: Towards No Earthly Pole, Aargauer Kunsthaus
Exhibition: Viva Arte Viva - 57th Venice Biennale 2017
Iroojrilik
Metamorphism
Exhibition: An Invitation to Disappear, Kunsthalle Mainz
An Invitation to Disappear
Exhibition: As We Used to Float, Berlinische Galerie
Ever Since We Crawled Out
Exhibition: First Light, Galerie Tschudi
Tropisme
First Light
Exhibition: Pitch Drop, Sies + Höke
Terminal Beach
A Sky Taste of Rock
Clockwork
Objects in Mirror Might Be Closer Than They Appear
Somehow, They Never Stop Doing What They Always Did
The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories
Exhibition: For They That Sow the Wind, Parasol Unit
The Key to the Present Lay in the Future
On The Sidewalk
Some Pigeons Are More Equal Than Others
Panorama
Polygon
The Purchase of the South Pole
Future Fossil Spaces
I Am Afraid, I Must Ask You to Leave
Somewhere
Exhibition: Towards No Earthly Pole, MASI Lugano
Exhibition: Future Fossil Spaces, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
Where Waters Meet
Towards No Earthly Pole
And Beneath It All Flows Liquid Fire
Exhibition: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere, MAMBo Bologna
In the Real World It Doesn't Happen That Perfectly
Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Exhibition: Controlled Burn, Langen Foundation
Controlled Burn
Panchronic Garden
Exhibition: Erratic, SFMOMA
Exhibition: Soothsayers, Dittrich & Schlechtriem
Exhibition: Concentrations 63: Julian Charrière, Towards No Earthly Pole, Dallas Museum of Art
Thickens, pools, flows, rushes, slows
We Are All Astronauts
Exhibition: Weight of Shadows – Prix Marcel Duchamp 2021, Centre Pompidou
Exhibition: Towards No Earthly Pole, Aargauer Kunsthaus
Exhibition: Viva Arte Viva - 57th Venice Biennale 2017
Iroojrilik
Metamorphism
Exhibition: An Invitation to Disappear, Kunsthalle Mainz
An Invitation to Disappear
Exhibition: As We Used to Float, Berlinische Galerie
Ever Since We Crawled Out
Exhibition: First Light, Galerie Tschudi
Tropisme
First Light
Exhibition: Pitch Drop, Sies + Höke
Terminal Beach
A Sky Taste of Rock
Clockwork
Objects in Mirror Might Be Closer Than They Appear
Somehow, They Never Stop Doing What They Always Did
The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories
Exhibition: For They That Sow the Wind, Parasol Unit
The Key to the Present Lay in the Future
On The Sidewalk
Some Pigeons Are More Equal Than Others
Panorama
Polygon
The Purchase of the South Pole
Future Fossil Spaces
I Am Afraid, I Must Ask You to Leave
Somewhere
Exhibition: Towards No Earthly Pole, MASI Lugano
Exhibition: Future Fossil Spaces, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
Where Waters Meet
Towards No Earthly Pole
And Beneath It All Flows Liquid Fire
Exhibition: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere, MAMBo Bologna
In the Real World It Doesn't Happen That Perfectly
Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Exhibition: Controlled Burn, Langen Foundation
Controlled Burn
Panchronic Garden
Exhibition: Erratic, SFMOMA
Exhibition: Soothsayers, Dittrich & Schlechtriem
Exhibition: Concentrations 63: Julian Charrière, Towards No Earthly Pole, Dallas Museum of Art
Thickens, pools, flows, rushes, slows
We Are All Astronauts
Exhibition: Weight of Shadows – Prix Marcel Duchamp 2021, Centre Pompidou
Exhibition: Towards No Earthly Pole, Aargauer Kunsthaus
Exhibition: Viva Arte Viva - 57th Venice Biennale 2017
Iroojrilik
Metamorphism
Exhibition: An Invitation to Disappear, Kunsthalle Mainz
An Invitation to Disappear
Exhibition: As We Used to Float, Berlinische Galerie
Ever Since We Crawled Out
Exhibition: First Light, Galerie Tschudi
Tropisme
First Light
Exhibition: Pitch Drop, Sies + Höke
Terminal Beach
A Sky Taste of Rock
Clockwork
Objects in Mirror Might Be Closer Than They Appear
Somehow, They Never Stop Doing What They Always Did
The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories
Exhibition: For They That Sow the Wind, Parasol Unit
The Key to the Present Lay in the Future
On The Sidewalk
Some Pigeons Are More Equal Than Others
Panorama
Polygon
The Purchase of the South Pole
Future Fossil Spaces
I Am Afraid, I Must Ask You to Leave
Somewhere
Exhibition: Towards No Earthly Pole, MASI Lugano
Exhibition: Future Fossil Spaces, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
Where Waters Meet
Towards No Earthly Pole
And Beneath It All Flows Liquid Fire
Exhibition: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere, MAMBo Bologna
In the Real World It Doesn't Happen That Perfectly
Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Exhibition: Controlled Burn, Langen Foundation
Controlled Burn
Panchronic Garden
Exhibition: Erratic, SFMOMA
Exhibition: Soothsayers, Dittrich & Schlechtriem
Exhibition: Concentrations 63: Julian Charrière, Towards No Earthly Pole, Dallas Museum of Art
Thickens, pools, flows, rushes, slows
We Are All Astronauts
Exhibition: Weight of Shadows – Prix Marcel Duchamp 2021, Centre Pompidou
Exhibition: Towards No Earthly Pole, Aargauer Kunsthaus
Exhibition: Viva Arte Viva - 57th Venice Biennale 2017
Iroojrilik
Metamorphism
Exhibition: An Invitation to Disappear, Kunsthalle Mainz
An Invitation to Disappear
Exhibition: As We Used to Float, Berlinische Galerie
Ever Since We Crawled Out
Exhibition: First Light, Galerie Tschudi
Tropisme
First Light
Exhibition: Pitch Drop, Sies + Höke
Terminal Beach
A Sky Taste of Rock
Clockwork
Objects in Mirror Might Be Closer Than They Appear
Somehow, They Never Stop Doing What They Always Did
The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories
Exhibition: For They That Sow the Wind, Parasol Unit
The Key to the Present Lay in the Future
On The Sidewalk
Some Pigeons Are More Equal Than Others
Panorama
Polygon
The Purchase of the South Pole
Future Fossil Spaces
I Am Afraid, I Must Ask You to Leave
Somewhere
Exhibition: Towards No Earthly Pole, MASI Lugano
Exhibition: Future Fossil Spaces, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
Where Waters Meet
Towards No Earthly Pole
And Beneath It All Flows Liquid Fire
Exhibition: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere, MAMBo Bologna
In the Real World It Doesn't Happen That Perfectly
Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Exhibition: Controlled Burn, Langen Foundation
Controlled Burn
Panchronic Garden
Exhibition: Erratic, SFMOMA
Exhibition: Soothsayers, Dittrich & Schlechtriem
Exhibition: Concentrations 63: Julian Charrière, Towards No Earthly Pole, Dallas Museum of Art
Thickens, pools, flows, rushes, slows
We Are All Astronauts
Exhibition: Weight of Shadows – Prix Marcel Duchamp 2021, Centre Pompidou
Exhibition: Towards No Earthly Pole, Aargauer Kunsthaus
Exhibition: Viva Arte Viva - 57th Venice Biennale 2017
Iroojrilik
Metamorphism
Exhibition: An Invitation to Disappear, Kunsthalle Mainz
An Invitation to Disappear
Exhibition: As We Used to Float, Berlinische Galerie
Ever Since We Crawled Out
Exhibition: First Light, Galerie Tschudi
Tropisme
First Light
Exhibition: Pitch Drop, Sies + Höke
Terminal Beach
A Sky Taste of Rock
Clockwork
Objects in Mirror Might Be Closer Than They Appear
Somehow, They Never Stop Doing What They Always Did
The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories
Exhibition: For They That Sow the Wind, Parasol Unit
The Key to the Present Lay in the Future
On The Sidewalk
Some Pigeons Are More Equal Than Others
Panorama
Polygon
The Purchase of the South Pole
Future Fossil Spaces
I Am Afraid, I Must Ask You to Leave
Somewhere
Exhibition: Towards No Earthly Pole, MASI Lugano
Exhibition: Future Fossil Spaces, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
Where Waters Meet
Towards No Earthly Pole
And Beneath It All Flows Liquid Fire
Exhibition: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere, MAMBo Bologna
In the Real World It Doesn't Happen That Perfectly
Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Exhibition: Controlled Burn, Langen Foundation
Controlled Burn
Panchronic Garden
Exhibition: Erratic, SFMOMA
Exhibition: Soothsayers, Dittrich & Schlechtriem
Exhibition: Concentrations 63: Julian Charrière, Towards No Earthly Pole, Dallas Museum of Art
Thickens, pools, flows, rushes, slows
We Are All Astronauts
Exhibition: Weight of Shadows – Prix Marcel Duchamp 2021, Centre Pompidou
Exhibition: Towards No Earthly Pole, Aargauer Kunsthaus
Exhibition: Viva Arte Viva - 57th Venice Biennale 2017
Iroojrilik
Metamorphism
Exhibition: An Invitation to Disappear, Kunsthalle Mainz
An Invitation to Disappear
Exhibition: As We Used to Float, Berlinische Galerie
Ever Since We Crawled Out
Exhibition: First Light, Galerie Tschudi
Tropisme
First Light
Exhibition: Pitch Drop, Sies + Höke
Terminal Beach
A Sky Taste of Rock
Clockwork
Objects in Mirror Might Be Closer Than They Appear
Somehow, They Never Stop Doing What They Always Did
The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories
Exhibition: For They That Sow the Wind, Parasol Unit
The Key to the Present Lay in the Future
On The Sidewalk
Some Pigeons Are More Equal Than Others
Panorama
Polygon
The Purchase of the South Pole
Future Fossil Spaces
I Am Afraid, I Must Ask You to Leave
Somewhere
Exhibition: Towards No Earthly Pole, MASI Lugano
Exhibition: Future Fossil Spaces, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
Where Waters Meet
Towards No Earthly Pole
And Beneath It All Flows Liquid Fire
Exhibition: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere, MAMBo Bologna
In the Real World It Doesn't Happen That Perfectly
Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Exhibition: Controlled Burn, Langen Foundation

Controlled Burn

Panchronic Garden

Exhibition: Erratic, SFMOMA

Exhibition: Soothsayers, Dittrich & Schlechtriem

Exhibition: Concentrations 63: Julian Charrière, Towards No Earthly Pole, Dallas Museum of Art