An imaginative entry into a sensory organ humans do not possess: the shark’s ampullae of Lorenzini — capable of sensing the faintest electric and magnetic fields, from a fish’s heartbeat to the Earth’s magnetic flow. What lies beyond our perception becomes visible — drawn through magnetic resonance — as trace, as echo, as fleeting disturbance within an invisible field.
From the Series Earthly Matters:
At the height of global capitalism, we continue to consume, produce and live in a world that cannot regenerate at nearly the same speed. The body of work Earthly Matters defines our scope of action within this scenario as a space for imagination. Simone Kessler‘s current works from installations and sculptures to film, photographs and drawings. Each work is dedicated, in its way, to central questions: Which problems do we have to face today? Which other images of tomorrow are already possible? How can we think them together? To use the last words of a science fiction trilogy by Octavia E. Butler: How can we sow them into fertile soil?
Earthly Matters is a body of work since 2019