Collective Ending HQ , London, 2024
Curated by Slugtown
Lucien Anderson, Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton, Jungwon Jay Hur, Rhett Leinster
Trace fossils are geological records of activity of a past life. Nest, burrows, and tracks are preserved in sedimentary rock, providing a glimpse into the behaviours of an ancient life – rather than the physical petrified remains of an organism. In Underland, Robert Macfarlane’s 2019 book, he writes “We all carry trace fossils within us….handwriting on an envelope; the wear on a wooden step left by footfall; the memory of a familiar gesture by someone gone, repeated so often it has worn its own groove in both air and mind; these are trace fossils too.”
In Our Teeth are Reefs, the exhibition brings together a selection of artists with singular approaches to ideas of value, excavation and belonging in a place, but with shared interest into the slippery property of materials.