Research Catalogue

Bjarki Bragason‘s practice investigates the collision of human and geological time scales and how social and political paradigm shifts occur and manifest. His recent research process has revolved drawing parallels between two different trees from disparate places in the world and points in time. One of the trees present in the work is fragmented and has been buried under Breiðamerkurjökull glacier in South East Iceland for over three thousand years, while the other tree, also fragmented, stood in the Sagehen Creek forest in California‘s Sierra Nevada Mountains. In his research, Bjarki has formed dialogue with people in fields such as geology, biology and archaeology, participated in field work with specialists from the East Iceland Nature Research Center and in 2019 Bjarki was a resident at the University of California at Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station, an artist in residency program at the Sagehen experimental forest.