Observations from the Critical Zone

Anne Noble

Two Rooms, Auckland

1 November - 30 November 2019

Reviewed by John Hurrell for EyeContact, 28 November, 2019

Incandescent Earth
This suite of six cameraless photographs (part of a larger solo show downstairs in Two Rooms) was made by well known Wellington artist, Anne Noble, by burying a strip of unravelled film in the ground at night, in the upper layer of soil of a patch of Australian native bush—left for 330 hours in order to capture “some form of tree language.” Whatever her beliefs about arboreal communication, the burying of chemical-sensitive film she sees as a conceit—an elaborate metaphor—that is a way of examining the damage done to top soil in our planet’s (final?) Anthropocene era.

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