Maria Stavrinaki on art and prehistory - Artforum International

IN 2011, French artist Dove Allouche suspended a camera at the end of a rope and lowered it into the crater of Mount Vesuvius, blindly capturing a photograph of this monument of ancient, violent rupture. He hasn’t touched a camera since. Instead, as if inspired to seek ever more elemental encounters with the natural world, he has spent the past few years metonymically capturing images of mineral formations via a series of inventive photographic procedures—for instance, placing emulsion-coated glass plates in petrifying caves (that is, caves where objects calcify very rapidly), generating

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