Katrina Bello
Hold Your Earth, 2025
Looping single-channel silent video embedded in media player
Edition of 3
Edition of 3
7 1/2 x 11 in
19.1 x 27.9 cm
19.1 x 27.9 cm
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A split-screen video depicts the waters of the Atlantic Ocean—recorded in Eastport, Maine (the easternmost city in the U.S.) —on the left and the artist’s hand holding a piece of...
A split-screen video depicts the waters of the Atlantic Ocean—recorded in Eastport, Maine (the easternmost city in the U.S.) —on the left and the artist’s hand holding a piece of shale that she carved to fit her palm. The shale, picked up in Pine Plains, New York, during an artist residency, serves as the screen for a video that zooms from the galaxy onto a spot on Earth. This work is part of a series that Bello created around abiogenesis, the theory of the genesis of life on Earth.
Video credit to ESO/spaceengine.org/L.Calçada
Video credit to ESO/spaceengine.org/L.Calçada