Snail Time II
2022
RM Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Collaboration with Ziggy Lever
Curving over hard and hidden-into, the whorled structure of a snail's shell suggests an infinite deepening of time as it turns inwards again and again in a vertigo spiral. In our writing and research about the snail, we came to think about how texts and images can become tied to one another across time, and how these ties create slippery trails between ideas. This installation proposes to meet the snail in a field of open query, where ideas and thoughts connect indirectly via shimmering trails of meaning that spiral in and out of the installation.
Snail Time II was installed at RM Gallery in January and February 2022. Over the four weeks of the install, the work shifted and changed as new elements were brought in and removed, and as mushrooms, sweetpeas, and texts accumulated on the ramp. At the end of the exhibition, we released Snail Time ii, the second publication for the project.
The Slow Knowledge of a Gardener, exhibition text by Sophie Davis, 2022 [PDF: 494kb]
Snail Time II Crossword made by Lucy and Ziggy. Answers on back page - NO CHEATING! [PDF: 1MB]
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