MEGAN CUMP – ATOMS / STONES
2015-09-14Megan Cump’s series ATOMS / STONES is a lyrical atlas made of fireworks, insects, prehistoric rock carvings, night skies, and portraits of sleepers. In Madrid, Cump encountered a 250,000-year-old fragment of a cranium – its interior laced with inky lines, branching like rivers on a map. This led her to a photographic investigation at the intersection of cosmology and cartography.
Charting their paths and patterns in the dark sky: stars, fireworks, satellites, and fireflies plot their coordinates in light. These dots and dashes, made on both a micro and macro scale, collide and scatter like atomic particles, tracing the universe on film. Other photographs are from Cump’s nighttime explorations in Portugal’s Côa River Valley. Here, Paleolithic images of horses, aurochs, felines, and ibex were incised into the rocky terrain over 20,000 years ago; marking the route of late Ice Age migrations and the origins of art-making.
Opposite – “untitled (fireworks I)” 2014
Exhibition runs through to October 11th, 2015
Station Independent Projects
138 Eldridge Street
Suite 2F
New York
NY 10002
