The Dark Wood; Danielle Mericle - Softcover

The Dark Wood; Danielle Mericle - SoftcoverDanielle Mericles The Dark Wood explores broad questions of history and our collective ability to document and learn from the past. Through intertwined images of abandoned Greco Roman casts, an ancient Sequoia forest and the artists own texts, Mericle invites us to consider history as a fluid process rather than a static truth With an epilogue that grounds the complex sequence of images in personal elegy, The Dark Wood re calibrates our sense of scale

• Danielle Mericle’s The Dark Wood explores broad questions of history and our collective ability to document and learn from the past. Through intertwined images of abandoned Greco-Roman casts, an ancient Sequoia forest and the artist’s own texts, Mericle invites us to consider history as a fluid process rather than a static truth
• With an epilogue that grounds the complex sequence of images in personal elegy, The Dark Wood re-calibrates our sense of scale by allowing us to locate a sense of mourning, loss and the specifics of our own narratives within the broad and unfixed framework of history

Pages: 88

Published: November 2021

Size (cm): 20.4 x 30 x 1

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