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.
Olivia Abächerli, How do stones grow? 2018, 14’ Magali Dougoud, Juana Llancalahuen et les Falsas Orcas, 2019, 23’ Unknown Fields Division, We Power our future with the Breastmilk of Volcanoes, 2015, 12’