as slow as possible — collectif curatorial en résidence — 2023/2025
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THE STONES IN OUR HANDS

Olivia Abächerli
Magali Dougoud
Unknown Fields Division

A drone flies over artificial landscapes in the Bolivian salt desert. A Swiss archaeologist lists the various utopian societies excavated during her research. A female diver questions the importance of collecting and protecting to no longer subdue and destroy. Oscillating between mythological narrative, science-fiction aesthetics and ethnographic cinema, the three video works explore our anthropocenical imaginations and deconstruct the violence induced by our ways of thinking the other and the elsewhere.