Joana hadjithomas & khalil joreige performance food

Unconformities – defined as a ‘a surface between successive strata representing a missing interval in the geologic record of time’ – is an ongoing project by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, which has developed over several stages.

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From 2016, the artists have been collecting a series of core samples that reveal the subterranean worlds of three cities omnipresent in their personal imaginaries: Athens, Paris and Beirut. Recovered from the construction sites that discard them after use, these cores bare each unconformity in full view, showing temporal ruptures, natural disasters, and geological movements.

History appears not as layers but as actions, a kind of palimpsest mixing epochs and civilisations, both in the distant and recent past. Geological phenomena – whether manmade or natural – appear, as well as the constant cycles of building, destruction and reconstruction of civilisations past and present, with each using the Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige VONI