-Wyrdings-
Caught Up In Time Wyrd is the old English precursor to the word weird. Alongside ideas of the strange and the uncanny, it primarily referred to destiny. A future fate. Wyrd (weird) is magic. The past, the present and the future overlapped and twisted into the shape of a word. Entrenched in history in the way that it describes what lies ahead, we are offered a glimpse of the world through eyes and narrative more than our own. The artists in this exhibition are held within time in a similar way. Bringing the past, the future and the present into one space, they unearth narratives of the planet, bringing light to the ways we understand nature and the world, within the context of climate change and disaster. As they explore ecological time for all its strangeness, weird worlds develop that find harmony within discord. Looking to lithic histories, uncanny realities of the extreme past give voice to the buried histories that we experience beneath our feet. Exploring the future of life, actions in the present emerge as future fossils as they span into the time ahead. We look at ourselves with the eyes of the future, evaluating the objects that we leave behind, and the forms of unfamiliar life that live in the remnants. Lastly the realities of the present are posed together as we recognise ourselves as part of interconnected systems of capitalism, the Anthropocene, and entanglements of reciprocity as we find kinship with the weird. This exhibition seeks to reveal how every individual is part of a reciprocal network of giving and sharing, with actions that fossilise into the future. The choices we make in the present shape the world around us and form the future. Fate becomes fluid and the past becomes present as we find ourselves entangled in ecologies of time and space, both human and non human