Planetary Home Improvement: From Just-in-time to Geological Time
Galerie VI PER cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition Planetary Home Improvement: From Just-in-time to Geological Time, prepared by Christine Giorgio, Amelyn Ng, and Gabriel Vergara.
Hobbymarket is a geological site on demand. Mineral wool, drywall, quick-setting compound for plaster. Materials are processed into products, packed, stored, stacked, and sold in global supply chains for DIY enthusiasts from Bauhaus to OBI and Hornbach. Basalt, gypsum, limestone. The economies of materials are separated from the entanglements of their mineral relationships by millennia of rock, fossils, plants, and stone. The store is a modern quarry. Installing drywall takes one day; gypsum takes 299 million years to form.
The exhibition Planetary Home Improvement examines the geological history of material culture through both physical and digital exhibited artifacts. Standardized materials for house construction, like bricks, drywall, mineral wool, or plywood, are not arranged as demanded resources but are framed in the context of the entire planet. By presenting both the immediate and the ancient at once, this geological experiment leverages time scales of accumulation, installation, or training outside the logic of extraction or infinite growth.
The exhibition is a presentation of the winning project selected from an open call announced by Galerie VI PER at the end of 2020.
Hobbymarket is a geological site on demand. Mineral wool, drywall, quick-setting compound for plaster. Materials are processed into products, packed, stored, stacked, and sold in global supply chains for DIY enthusiasts from Bauhaus to OBI and Hornbach. Basalt, gypsum, limestone. The economies of materials are separated from the entanglements of their mineral relationships by millennia of rock, fossils, plants, and stone. The store is a modern quarry. Installing drywall takes one day; gypsum takes 299 million years to form.
The exhibition Planetary Home Improvement examines the geological history of material culture through both physical and digital exhibited artifacts. Standardized materials for house construction, like bricks, drywall, mineral wool, or plywood, are not arranged as demanded resources but are framed in the context of the entire planet. By presenting both the immediate and the ancient at once, this geological experiment leverages time scales of accumulation, installation, or training outside the logic of extraction or infinite growth.
The exhibition is a presentation of the winning project selected from an open call announced by Galerie VI PER at the end of 2020.
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