The Earth Speaks is a solo exhibition by Lincolnshire -based artist Oliver Ventress.
Through sonic sculpture and moving image, terrain becomes both the subject and an instrument – a landscape of clay, earth, wood and sound. A large, sculptural body resembles an asteroid – an object which has triggered an encounter between the Earth and an unknown elsewhere.
The exhibition asks what it might mean to listen: to materials, to environments, to sounds, to forms, especially when meanings cannot be directly translated. A horizon line extends across the walls of the space, transforming the perimeter into a terrestrial surface. The Earth Speaks is an invitation to consider the possibility that the Earth has always been speaking, only not in a language made for us.