Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer is well known for producing large-scale mixed media works, comprising drawing, sculpture, photography and film characterised by meticulous research and conceptual rigour - traits D+CFilm has also become rightly famous for.

Farmer’s new body of work, going on show at Exeter’s Spacex from tomorrow (Saturday), takes as its starting point a book found lying on the street titled The Last Two Million Years.

The encyclopedia presents a description of the evolution of the earth leading up to the appearance of ‘Homo sapiens’ and the subsequent history of man from this time.

Farmer uses this chance starting point to tackle the larger themes of how we understand our existence in the world, how this is articulated through language and how this can have relevance to an individual. So, it’s ambitious then.

The exhibition runs until December 1 - by which time we’ll all be starting to think about Christmas. Cuh, it comes round so fast, etc.

Posted by Thin White Duke

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