Société is pleased to present Pristine, Part II, Timur Si-Qin’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. Comprising four new works in stainless steel and moving image, the exhibition emerges from the artist’s sustained engagement with the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon. Through encounters with particular plants and their surrounding worlds, Si-Qin considers how other forms of life come to occupy a place within human attention, feeling, and belief.
Pristine begins with the continued existence of ecologically intact environments whose abundance can seem almost implausible within contemporary experience. Their extraordinary forms and densities of life are easily assigned to the realm of fantasy or idealization. For Si-Qin, this difficulty of recognition has cultural consequences: what appears unreal becomes harder to understand as something with its own existence, value, and future.