Submission
Sarah Sandler
Boolagoorda
LOCATION Centre d’art Madeleine-Lambert DATE10/09/2021 — 20/11/2021 CURATOR Xavier Jullien AUTHOR Xavier Jullien PHOTOGRAPHY Sarah Duby
Boolagoorda is the title of this exhibition but it is first and foremost a remarkable coastal site that has been inhabited for more than thirty thousand years and is home to living fossils known as stromatolites, which the Malgana consider to be their ancestors. These natural formations more than 3.5 million years old, look like dark sculptures emerging through the surface of the clear water, they grow patiently a few millimetres a year and are a rich source of scientific information concerning the origin of life on earth and also – perhaps – elsewhere in the universe. The exhibition has its roots in the particular features of this site, on the westernmost point of Australia, and in the childhood memory of the artist, from which she has created fiction in film.
