Mud Will Remember Us, 2023

From FOR-SITE:

San Francisco Bay Area artist Tanja Geis proposes a speculative future in which a submerged former military guard station is home to new marine life forms adapted to and thriving amidst polluted, warming, acidifying, and rising oceans.

To create her installation, Mud Will Remember Us, the artist foraged local San Francisco Bay mud—containing byproducts of human activity such as plastics, heavy metals, and chemicals—which she hand-formed into hundreds of sculptures suggesting simple-bodied organisms in evolutionary transformation. Geis incorporates these objects into a debut of mobiles set against fluorescent red walls, playfully beckoning us to imagine this site beyond human memory.

Dimensions: 9′ h x 8′ w x 15′ l

Photos 1-12 by Andria Lo. Last photo by Tanja Geis.

Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Mud Will Remember Us
2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint, acrylic paint, metal
110" x 96" x 180"
Mud Will Remember Us, 2023
San Francisco Bay mud, fishing line, driftwood, oil paint
110" x 96" x 180"
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