"Life Cycle of a Common Weed"
in "Contracts of Recognitions" group exhibition

The exhibition explore the possibilities of alliances and resistance in a more-than-human world. The more we encounter the consequences of a dualistic perception of the human as superior to their environment — in the form of climate change, pandemics, genocides, or energy crises — the more urgent it becomes to continue the critique of this worldview within broader contexts. The project asks if alliances could be sought in places that Western imagination has failed to reach. Fungi already assist in logistics, artificial intelligence helps detect tumors, and bacteria are used to clean oil spills in the oceans.

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 depart from a set of intertwined questions: How can alliances be imagined beyond the human? What does it mean to represent more-than-human entities within legal, political, and artistic frameworks? And how does ownership—of land, bodies, or futures—shape the conditions under which recognition becomes possible?

Artists: Justyna Górowska, Confluence of European Water Bodies (Jakob Kukula & Leon Lapa Pereira), Caitlin Berrigan, Susan Schuppli, András Cséfalvay, Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal, Elena Mazzi, Angela Anderson, Marwa Arsanios.