After the rain

From footage originally shot at the Grotto di Catullo (Italy) after a torrential downpour Dyson and Trayner overlay an exploration of these Roman ruins with a burgeoning soundscape of initially subtle birdcalls that rhythmically pulse and build through digital manipulation, eventually creating dissonance and disharmony, echoing the contradictory relationship humans have had historically with their environment. Referencing the Romantic history of the modern repurposing of antiquity and nature as an ideological prop and the tradition of the sublime, the artists invite the viewer to consider the absurdity of such concepts in the face of ecological collapse.

After the Rain responds to the question of the exhibition by positing the end of all human life where all our metaphysical contemplation has been rendered irrelevant by our inability to live with ourselves, and our world.