Michael Linares: The Way of Makapansgat

Galería Agustina Ferreyra se is pleased to present The Way of Makapansgat, Michael Linare’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. For the occasion, Linares presents a body of work analog to an investigation he’s been conducting on the history, function and quotidian uses of what we know and commonly refer to as the stick. The exhibition, gathers a series of theories, references and historical events, that along with the investigation, inform the artist’s ongoing interest in the interpretation and analysis of the way we make sense. 

The Makapansgat Pebble, also known as the ‘pebble of many faces’ is an anthropomorphic stone, the size of a baseball, found in 1925 in the Valley of Makapansgat, located in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The aforementioned pebble (ca. 3,000,000 BP) is the first of what scientists have defined as a Manuport. Technically, a Manuport is a natural object with no alteration whatsoever, that has been removed from its original context by human agency. Using animation, Linares uses the circumstances of the Makapansgat finding to tell the story of another phenomenon, one that is considered by the artist to be the reason and origin, of everything that means anything for our species.