From disappeared mountains to continent-crossing palm trees, Noémie Goudal’s work uses deep climate history to depict the world we’re heading into
‘This show is very much about paleoclimatology – how scientists are studying the past climate partly to understand what happened but also partly to help them predict what will happen in future and how we can plan for it,” says Noémie Goudal. “It’s by looking at the past, at changes in heat and the elements, that we can apprehend what will happen.”
We’re discussing her exhibition Post Atlantica, which opens at London’s Edel Assanti gallery on this week. Including film, photography, a monumental sculptural installation and a series of ceramics, it’s a show united by the French artist’s ongoing fascination with the history of Earth, its climate and its geology. The title refers to Atlantica, an ancient continent that formed about 2bn years ago then divided to form parts of present-day Africa and South America; paleoclimatologists take a deep dive into that past and more, and Goudal has spent years researching their work.
