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Holocene
Civic Centre and Beach
Inspired by the natural world, responding to its power, its fragility and how it is affected by human development and industrialisation, Alex Duncan’s major new installation portrays a possible future scenario of how the natural world may be. Polyurethane foam pebbles, a by-product of the oil industry that the artist has collected from the coastline, become monumentally enlarged, washed up on a rising sea.
Duncan presents these objects as the debris of the modern world, stemming from a rolling history of copper smelting, coal extraction and oil refinement, exposing the complicated relationship between man and nature in an uncertain future where these boulders may yet hold true and exist, washed up on a surge of environmental change.
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Holocene
Traeth Abertawe a’r Ganolfan Ddinesig
Wedi’i ysbrydoli gan y byd naturiol, ac yn ymateb i’w rym, ei freuder a sut mae datblygiad dynol a diwydiant yn effeithio arno, mae gwaith newydd pwysig Alex Duncan yn portreadu sefyllfa bosibl ar gyfer y byd naturiol yn y dyfodol. Mae cerigos ewyn polyẅrethan, sgîl-gynnyrch y diwydiant olew y mae’r artist wedi’i gasglu o’r arfordir, wedi’u mwyhau’n aruthrol, yn golchi i’r lan.
Mae Duncan yn cyflwyno’r gwrthrychau hyn fel adfeilion y byd cyfoes, yn deillio o hanes parhaol o doddi copr, cloddio glo a phuro olew, gan ddangos y berthynas gymhleth rhwng dyn a natur mewn dyfodol ansicr lle gallai’r clogfeini hyn ddal eu tir a bodoli, wedi cyrraedd ar don o newid amgylcheddol.
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