Following on from our incredible current show, Oude Leeskamer is thrilled to invite you to the opening of our next exhibition on Saturday the 10th of May at 11:00.

Curated in collaboration with associate professor at Stellenbosch University’s Visual Arts Department, Ernst van der Wal, Followed by Nine Zeros: Experiments in Deep Time is a group exhibition in which artists are invited to create work(s) around the theme of deep time.

This show takes as its title the numerical representation of deep time, which is commonly understood as a geological timeframe spanning roughly 4.6 billion years, or 4.6 followed by nine zeros. We are interested in the way that deep time is referenced (be it in concept, outcome, or process) in contemporary visual and sonic art and ask participating artists to respond to geological and philosophical understandings of deep time. Deep time speaks to cosmological and geological temporalities that lie beyond the Anthropocene, which provides rich ground for creative engagements with and imaginings of time and place.

Participating artists: Michael Bräuer, Georgia Munnik, Water Dixon, Gerhard Marx, Jean Brundrit, Abdus Salaam, Antoni Schonken and Gerhard Roux.