Spring Has Arrived

The exhibition Fear and Fauna focuses on the intersection between race and gender-based violence and the violence against the more-than-human while simultaneously bringing new perspectives on liberation and mobilization on an individual and collective level.

As the title indicates, the exhibition looks to a crucial juxtaposition between ‘fear’ – seen as a decisive indicator of intersectional inequality – and a critique of the historical use and conceptualization of ‘fauna’, originally formulated by the Swedish scientist, Carl von Linné, the founder of modern taxonomy and ecology, who, in the categorization of the world's animal kingdom, also was behind the division of humanity into racial types.

The exhibition revolves around practices of resistance dealing with killing, violence and inequality as a global phenomenon, happening in both virtual and physical realities across class differences, cultures, and geography. The exhibition shows that gendered and minoritized violence takes place in all spaces; the intimate, the public, and the physical as well as digital fora.

In six connecting rooms, the audience encounters the complex issues at hand through poetic and sensuous intel. By assembling works that emote experiences of subjugated bodies in contemporary societies, the exhibition questions issues regarding class, power, bodily autonomy, the role of science under concurrent and historic colonial rule, tech-patriarchy, wet-/hardware, and much more.

In a variety of mediums such as sculpture, 3D-animation, performance, painting, VR, video, and installation, the exhibition pursues the imaginary with the agency, love, beauty, and power that it entails. With fierce images of resistance, the exhibition raises subversive notions and historical re-examinations that positions digital life as a catalyst in a larger revolt, and how this together with other communities can lead to mobilization, hope and liberation.

Press: ARIEL