Peggy Weil is an artist and designer based in Los Angeles. An innovator in digital portraiture, Weil’s practice ranges from large-scale public installations to videos and interactive art. Since 2011, the artist has focused on what she calls “extended landscapes”: works that visualize the layers of the Earth that exist “beneath our feet, above our heads, and back in time.” 

Core Memory, Weil’s current exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, brings together two of the artist’s “underscapes”: 88 Cores, a video descent through the Greenland ice sheet, and 18 Cores, which unearths images of rock cores from beneath California’s Salton Sea. 

Rendering visible the unseen processes of climate change, Weil opens a window onto the planet as a recording device, revealing how meteorological phenomena and historical events are inscribed into polar ice sheets and geological strata in a contemplative exploration of Deep Time. Through these immersive vertical time capsules, the physical evidence of environmental shifts reshaping the Earth becomes perceptible—and undeniable.