The works in Notes from the Fire appear as carbonised artefacts, petrified remnants, and half-forgotten memory-scapes arrested in wax paintings. Excavated from the imagined sites of the former Cape of Smoke, these fragments form a broken catalogue of a Life System once waged in the Age of the Pyrocene. Their surfaces are cryptic, their functions opaque. Deep meaning has burned away, leaving behind only traces, disturbingly familiar yet wonderfully strange.

In this work of visual speculative fiction, Givan Lötz imagines a time after time, a feral future in which the modern myth of progress has failed. Within these enigmatic remnants, we recognise something stubbornly human: the impulse to mark, to remember, to leave a signal in the ashes.

On view in the Main Gallery until 23 April 2026.