‘Fractures and Futures’ is an exhibition of work by Catherine Chan that delves into human entanglements with the more-than-human and the responsibility inherent in these relationships. At once, her medium and subject, rocks and the materials born of them—the substance of geology—represent a layering of experiences and memories traversing epochs of the Earth’s history with more fleeting moments of human experience.
With a background in fine arts as well as biogeography and soil science, recontextualizing and mixing materials of deep time with those made within human timescales offers a method to consider ways of seeing and being that offer an approach and philosophical framework to conceive of the immensity of deep time.
Ultimately concerned with how to live within this moment in Earth’s trajectory, the artworks in this exhibition consider how breaking becomes generative—opening up cracks and shedding light on histories that have been buried or eroded away. By working with fractures, repair, and care, these artworks aim to reveal embedded histories, visualize hope, and comprehend our interwoven relationships with the biotic and abiotic.
Spanning the immediacy of minutes, hours, and days to the vastness of eras, epochs, and eons, the compression of time into the present moment is used as a mode of unearthing the deep past to cast forward into a deep future.
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