Marina Zurkow · Necrocracy

bitforms gallery is pleased to announce Necrocracy, the gallery's first New York solo exhibition with Guggenheim Fellow Marina Zurkow, recognized for her "cross-disciplinary animation work and her participatory art environments." The exhibition explores "governance of the dead," examining oil's geological history and petrochemical culture through four new projects investigating human relationships with animals, plants, and weather. The exhibition features Mesocosm (Wink, TX), a generative animation composed of thousands of sketches from life and online research; the NeoGeo series, animations using 19th-century graphical notation of rock formations that visualize Earth's liquidity and drilling through time stratifications; and the Body Bag series—soft sculptures in Tyvek with imagery from "The Petroleum Manga," each filled with virgin and post-manufacture debris, functioning as "death masks" evoking funeral urns and Egyptian tombs.

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