19.10.2024 – 25.1.2025 Gotland's Lithological Society
Solo exhibition at the Gotland Museum / the Historical Museum (Strandgatan 14, Visby, Sweden) The Reef Atlas sets out to revisit the ecosystem of the ancient seafloor.
The site-specific installation includes an Atlas of three volumes, each dedicated to one of the museum’s three staircases. The volumes were indexed with the scandic letters Å, Ä and Ö.
The Atlas features 53 detailed ink drawings of selected fossil imprints found on the museum’s limestone floor slabs
The drawings and photographs in the Atlas map out fossil imprints in the museum’s staircases
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The letter Ä refers to the staircase and the numbers 2.7 indicate the 2nd floor and the 7th step
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The hand drawn fragments were scanned in and combined with a computer to make a 10 meter long panorama section of a fictional coral reef. The result was printed on translucent vellum and mounted against the windows of the museum entrance hall.