The exhibition Traces of Life interrogates the interdependence of human and non-human life, exploring their intersecting mobilities and rights in hostile environments. Too often, nature has been weaponized in the service of military invasions and national border defenses. Controlling nature, like controlling people, has long been part of the arsenal of war. The stakes in this struggle involve the power to determine who6 is welcome in certain territories and who is not. Who is displaced, and for whose benefit? What complex forces govern these sites? And how is value measured when the preservation of specific orchid species is contrasted with the neglect of vulnerable groups of people, such as refugees?
Exhibiting artist: Forensic Architecture (UK), Hanna Rullmann (NL) – Faiza Ahmad Khan (IN), OFF Seed Library – Seeds of Tomorrow