Sometimes, without warning, the earth opens up, sucking the ground in, creating a void where matter once stood.

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Viviana Abelson, Jakob Brugge, François Pisapia, Laura Langer and M. Welch 

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A sinkhole is a sudden apparition of negative space, yet it occurs due to lengthily 
unseen processes of degradation and erosion. 
Naturally circulating groundwater eats into soluble forms of bedrock, 
such as limestone, gradually forming a network of underground spaces and caverns
that are dramatically revealed only at the moment 
when the now shell-like layer of outer ground can no longer support 
the empty mass underneath. 

Sinkhole makes manifest the juncture before the collapse: 
betraying its own subterranean structures to expose the processes 
that push for material exhaustion. 

What ground are you standing on?

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Saturday, 08.09.2018
5–10 pm
Slideshow with reading
8 pm

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08.09.–30.09.2018

TOR art space
Allerheiligenstrasse 2–4
60311 Frankfurt

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curated by 
Paula Kommoss