Presented with Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)
Castillo Deball’s richly
presented objects radiate
contextual strata fused with
visual depth and discovery.
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Replaying Life’s Tape
Mariana
Castillo
Deball
Monash University
Museum of Art (MUMA)
Sat 5 October—
Sat 7 December
OPENING EVENT
Sat 5 October 3—5pm
FREE
festival.melbourne
www.monash.edu.au/muma
Mariana Castillo Deball. Ediacara panorama,
2019. Courtesy the artist.
Some artists take a long view of history,
but few cast their gaze as far as Mariana
Castillo Deball. Her canvas is deep time,
often drawing on the practices of Western
sciences such as anthropology, archaeology
and paleontology to reconfigure our
understanding of history and our place
within it.
An area north of Adelaide is home to
recently discovered fossils that resulted in
the naming of an entirely new period in our
planet’s geological history, the Ediacaran
Period. In 2018 Castillo Deball undertook a
site visit to the Ediacara Hills to document
the sandstone-based impressions, using
techniques to capture images often more
readable than the fossils themselves.
For her new project at MUMA she drills a
wormhole through time to this unimaginably
far off era, combining objects and viewing
technologies to unearth new understandings
of history, site and life itself.
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