African Studies: Edward Burtynsky artist made the details of the Serios

the details of the Serios phenomenon can’t be disentangled without questioning the social conditions that produced it in the first place

Mezcal and passion fruit cocktail

5" height x 7

This project brings together the work of seven years

installations and site-specific works

African Studies: Edward Burtynsky artist made the details of the SeriosIn Edward Burtynskys recent photographs, produced across the African continent, the patterns and scars of human altered landscapes initially appear to form an abstract painterly language; they reference the sublime and often surreal qualities of human mark making. While chronicling the major themes of terraforming and extraction, urbanization and deforestation, African Studies conveys the unsettling reality of sweeping resource depletion on both a