The Inevitable

Mark Adams, Joyce Campbell, Conor Clarke, Megan Jenkinson, Sam Norton

Two Rooms
16 Putiki Street, Newton, Auckland

13 March - 11 April 2026

Opening preview: Thursday 12 March, 5.30 - 7.30 PM

Conor Clarke, Voerde, Wesel, Nordrhein-Westfalen (2014)

The Inevitable is an exhibition of photographs by Mark Adams, Joyce Campbell, Conor Clarke, Megan Jenkinson and Sam Norton. These works document landscapes transformed by elemental forces – earth, water, air and fire – in diverse locations, including the volcanic island of Savai’i in Samoa, a marginal desert space in Southern California, coal-fired power stations in Germany, the Dry Valleys of Antarctica, and Christchurch’s Port Hills. The title of this exhibition implies certainty and finality and can be read as a provocation in two ways: one in relation to photographs as stable objects with fixed meanings; the other in relation to our current reality as citizens living in a fossil-fuel-driven Capitalocene that offers very little certainty of a peaceful and flourishing future for humans and nonhumans alike. Can we predict with confidence that any outcome – social, cultural, political, environmental – is inevitable in these times.