Architect Magazine: What do we remember and how? Those are the key questions to which two exhibitions of signal importance and achievement on view in Los Angeles right now provide very concrete answers. Presented at the Geffen Contemporary site of Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) (through May 3) and at the independent art space The Brick (through May 7), Monuments focuses on how we remember the struggle to liberate black people in this country, a still ongoing conflict in which it has been until recently only the supposed losers of Civil War have erected physical reminders.
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I want to throw in a more environmental piece into this mix of deconstruction as shown in art exhibitions. I was shown this piece, titled Future Fossil by Clarissa Tossin, in the Latin American unit of my Global Science Fiction course. This piece depicts a long tube with layers that mimic the Earth’s layers. With the fossil title, the audience is called to think of the layers of pressure that fossils are under. Within this view. The artist places natural layers towards one end of the sculpture, such as dirt and rocks. On the other end, the layers slowly transform to more artificial or man made structures. None of them are specific to materials we know, but do harken to a sort of toxicity in contrast to the natural layers. There are these holes that show up in the highest few layers that seem less structurally sound than the layers further down, speaking to a decaying of the Earth as caused by human creation.
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