For the love of Petroleum
For the love of Petroleum
Image: Blue Willow (2021) by Sarah Goffman, recycled 3D filament, acrylic, 35 x 35 x 35 cm
Artists
Carla Cescon, Sarah Goffman, Lucy Merrett and Rolande Suliere
Artist/s statement
In For the Love of Petroleum, artists Carla Cescon, Sarah Goffman, Lucy Merrett and Rolande Suliere offer systems, talismans and totems holding desire for the lost, long gone, resurfaced, reused and the unobtainable out of reach rendered illusory in this Anthropocene age.
For the love of Petroleum is also somehow about pathways, expansion and resultant systems and networks which exist because petroleum is the energy of propulsion, combustion and inflation. It delivers consumer lethargic comfort whilst depleting itself. It is also culture itself.
Fossil fuel usage creates systems and networks of land and sea communication which define and direct corporate exploitation of common land and sea. Corporations
create secured and funnelled entry and exit points through country and sea that hold significance for the culture of first nations peoples and where valuable unearthed resources are held as secret. The spectre of an unexamined Anthropocene present, lays ready to challenge structures of economic power and the constriction of the movement of global and bioregional communities.