Soil: The World at Our Feet
Strange exhibition at Somerset House looking at the power and potential of soil. The show was a mix of science and contemporary art but became a bit repetitive after a while. There are only so many videos of soil microbes a girl can watch. The standout works for me were by Kim Norton “Soil Library” and “Kinship to Land”. In the first they take a small, standard amount of clay from different pieces of land and makes pinch pots from them and in the second they have asked people in Nunehead bury a piece of cloth in their garden to measure the health of the soil. I also liked Agnieszka Kurant’s sculptures made by taking an imprint of the inside of termite nests and Ken Griffiths “The Sweetmans - A Country Cottage Calendar, 1974” where he had taken a photograph of an elderly couple in their garden every month for a year. Closed 13 April 2025 Reviews Guardian Evening Standard