Volcano Dreams
Confinement, gta exhibitions, ETH Zürich, 2020
Project Team:
Rania Ghosn + El Hadi Jazairy
Anhong Li
Venue:
Online at e-flux Architecture and on site at ETH Zürich
On view:
October 15 – December 18, 2020
Curator:
gta exhibitions
Volcano Dreams retells the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh through a dream. On the third night of his six-day journey to the Cedar Forest, Gilgamesh dreams of a volcanic eruption: wind, dust, quakes, lightning, fire, and ash. In three drawings, DESIGN EARTH sets this vast and hostile dream against the small, fragile Dream House in which Gilgamesh sleeps, inside a circle on the floor. Gilgamesh slays Humbaba, guardian of the forest, and fells the cedars for temple doors, but the dream continues to haunt him: he hears the noise of an eruption and sees a damaged grain silo in Beirut, as blue grains of ammonium nitrate fall from the sky. Sap bleeds from the trees, bees swarm the hollow cedars, and Gilgamesh wanders the wild, afraid of death.
Project Details:
Dream House, 2020
The Silent Demise of Humbaba, 2020
Bleeding Sap, 2020