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POP exhibitions tapping into the zeitgeist

Two artists explore our world pre-climate disaster, and history that lends insight to past and future.

6 Mar 2024 12:51

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Penelope Cain, 'Ice-told stories of lead and rope' opening at POP. Image (cropped): Courtesy of the artist. Amundsen source material courtesy of the National Library of Australia. An artwork with two separate images spread across four panels. On the top is an archival image of a group of four explorers in a snowy environment looking at a small tent with flats on it. On the bottom is a photo of a silver rock.

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Penelope Cain, ‘Ice-told stories of lead and rope’ as part of an exhibition opening at POP. Image (cropped): Courtesy of the artist. Amundsen source material courtesy of the National Library of Australia.

Two exhibitions are opening at Port Adelaide’s Post Office Projects Gallery + Studios (POP) by artists who are keenly aware of the spirit of our times and question the trajectory of our future.

Penelope Cain’s Ice-told stories through layers of dust presents a surprising piece of information – that dust from Broken Hill, Wilyakali Country was recently discovered embedded in Antarctic ice, and the pollution began as far back as 1889.

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