Ailbhe Ní Bhriain- Inscriptions (One Here Now), 2018, single channel film, 14.54 mins. Selected by Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
(15:05 minutes) Selected by Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s film draws us into the vertiginous depths of a quarry
interior. The camera traces the deep-time of geological sequences, the scars
left by machinery on the rock surfaces, and the sprayed industrial notations
that codify the commodification and disappearance of landscape. In these
disparate forms of inscription the film finds a metaphor for the
Anthropocene - the current geological era in which human behaviour is
the dominant force shaping environment and climate.