Exhibition
BOOK LAUNCH: While The Dust Quickly Falls
27 Apr 2023
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 55 Eastcastle Street
- London
- W1W 8EF
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Oxford Circus / Margaret Street
- Oxford Circus
Investigating the fragility and irreversibility of history, alongside the power of testimony and memory, Fatma Bucak questions traditional forms of history-making as well as cultural and gender norms. Join us for the launch of her new book, While the Dust Quickly Falls.
About
While the Dust Quickly Falls, was published for Bucak’s titular exhibition at Kunsthaus Dresden in 2022, and considers the relationships between political violence, environmental destruction, and climate change. It moves across disparate geographies in Mediterranean cities connected by the catastrophic impact that conflict and war have had on their ecologies. It dwells on the loss of biodiversity, endangered and extinct plants, humanity’s interdependence on non-human beings, and healing in works ranging from living environment, video, sculpture, mosaic, and sound works. Join us at the gallery for a discussion of both the text and the artist’s practice, with a Q + A session featuring Sophie J Williamson.
Texts by:
Eray Cayli, scholar, LSE
Heather Davis, anthropologist, the New School NY
Ecem Arslanay, an architect, writer
Kari Conte, curator
Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz, director Kunstahaus Dresden
