Notre Dame des Laves .

Presented at No.9 Cork Street, Notre Dame Des Laves exhibits the work of artist Stéphanie Brossard for the first time in the UK. Curated by Ben Broome, two large format installations are exhibited, both concerning the anthropology and ecology of the artist's home, La Reunion.

Glissement de terrain and Rendez-vous are informed by the omnipresence of disaster for residents of La Reunion with the threat of hurricanes and volcanic eruptions punctuating daily life. Through these works, Brossard addresses the violence of displacement and upheaval that arises when the natural world collides with the socio-economic conditions of the French colony.

The exhibition's title Notre Dame Des Laves (literally translated as "Our Lady of the Lava") pays homage to a church by the same name which, in 1977, was miraculously spared when the lava flow from the eruption of Piton de la Fournaise split to flow around the church.

When the exhibition opens the steel tabletop of Glissement de Terrain is piled high with sand. Connected via the internet to a database of global tectonic activity, motors shake the table when an earthquake is registered in real time. Upon closing this sand will cover the floor.

For Rendez-vous, discarded shards of mismatched marble populate the floors of the gallery. Marble as a natural resource isn't present on La Reunion so its existence on the island is purely synthetic: a manifestation of human occupancy. Their Rendez-vous is a natural impossibility.

Brossard herself knows what it is to be displaced. The physical weight of the work (over one tonne) helps Brossard speak about her own experience: the challenge of moving and installing her work symbolising the weight of her own displacement and the mutations she endured as a result.

Ben Broome