The central structure of the installation is a crumbling cabinet made of stacked wooden boxes, which both harks back to the concept of a cabinet of curiosities and challenges the colonial approaches to collection and categorization that are associated with it.
Within this structure, 12 screens show various creatures visiting a watering hole in the form of an abandoned dustbin. They are interspersed with various objects from the forest that serve as reminders of human history. Collected during the artist's research or discovered as physical traces entangled with exposed roots, the footage and objects speak to transformations over time within a place, and the endless reconstitution of the forest.
Through destabilizing colonial narratives of control over nature, Trash Stratum imagines more fluid relationships between the human and nonhuman and reminds us of our entangled existence.
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