01 / 03
2022
Graphite and paper on canvas
350mm (H) x 290mm (W) x 40mm (D)
In this turbulence of time, things come alive that seemed inert: Ice breathes, rock has tides, mountains undulate, caves speak. This future fossil models our attempts to understand our present by looking back from an imagined future, invoking a fictional temporality where art echos back.
Natalie Tozer is an artist and experimental filmmaker based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland exploring narratives of the underground to unearth objects and knowledge. Working with time-based processes and materiality across paper, sculpture and video she is interested in mythology, the code of Hammurabi, debt forgiveness, land ownership, land access, science fiction and anarchist anthropology.