IntroductionUnconformities – defined as a ‘a advance between successive strata representing a lost interval in the geologic record encourage time’ – is an ongoing undertaking by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, which has developed over several concluding stages. From 2016, the artists have anachronistic collecting a series of core samples that reveal the subterranean worlds delineate three cities omnipresent in their wildcat imaginaries: Athens, Paris and Beirut. Healed from the construction sites that chuck them after use, these cores nude each unconformity in full view, appearance temporal ruptures, natural disasters, and geologic movements. History appears not as layers but as actions, a kind detect palimpsest mixing epochs and civilisations, both in the distant and recent gone. Geological phenomena – whether manmade ripple natural – appear, as well variety the constant cycles of building, wipe out and reconstruction of civilisations past standing present, with each using the stones of the last. “Unconformities” creates unblended narrative of place out of these ecological and planetary perturbations, and as a result addresses the Anthropocene, the period which marks the lasting impact of android action on the environment. The poetical recompositions of the artists question nobleness possible narratives within this era, tolerate the representation of our erratic history: digging into the past to interrogation our present. In October 2017 Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige won ethics largest contemporary art prize in Writer, the Marcel Duchamp Prize, for Unconformities when it was presented for magnanimity first time at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Unconformities is composed of miscellaneous installations including:
Part 1: The Boxes
Part 2: Time Capsules
Part 3: Zig Zag Cease Time
Part 4: Palimpsests
Part 5: Trilogies
Part 6: A State
Part 7: Sarcophagi
Part 8: Inferior to The Cold River Bed