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Aluk To Dolo shows how a family history became intertwined with the colonial history of the former Dutch East Indies. The spread of Christianity as a new faith was received with mixed feelings on Sulawesi, home of the Toraja people. Traditional feast

Panta Rhei is an old philosophical saying by Heraclitus that can be interpreted as “all that is observable flows continuously.” In the spirit of this reflection, Daan Paans (NL) attempts with Floating Signifiers to provide insight into the constant t

Arturo Soto (MX) grew up listening to his father’s stories about his youth in the twin cities of Juárez (Mexico) and El Paso (USA), fascinated by how much things had changed in a generation. Over time, he compiled and narratively shaped his father’s

Is nature a place, an all-encompassing system, or an ideal that we carry within us? The work of Bas Ketelaars (NL) emerges from an interest in the problem of representing nature. A nature that is unreachably far away and yet all around us. Ketelaars

'With Love. From an Invader. – Rhododendrons, Empire, China and Me' is an intensive field study. Every other day for a year, Yan Wang Preston (CN/GB) went to a particular love-heart-shaped 'Rhododendron ponticum' shrub and photographed it. In the pro

For more than 16 years on his free Mondays, Ron Dirven (NL) studied twigs, roots, trunks, blossoms, leaves, more trunks, and trees. Endless trees. He did not often go out into nature, as you would expect from someone so focussed on it, but used his s

'Limburg' is a photo series by Lars Duchateau (BE) based on articles that appeared in the regional section of the newspaper 'Het Belang van Limburg': a rural region in the north-eastern part of Belgium. The articles have in common that they focus on

In 'Only Barely Still', Catherine Lemblé focuses on Svalbard, often cast by outsiders as a remote, rugged outpost where only the toughest men survive. In the historical record shaped by early exploration, women are largely absent, appearing only as r

'Atlantis' is an eclectic collection of photographic fiction about the legend of Atlantis by Oriane Thomasson. As recounted by Plato, Atlantis describes a magnificent island blessed with abundant natural resources. Its inhabitants, descendants of Pos

'The Sierra' revisits the Sierra Nevada mountains through the context of today’s climate crisis, a landscape that has long shaped American ideas of wilderness. Aaron Rothman (US) seeks to evoke the physical experience of being in the mountains while

'The Course of Water' explores the environmental and social histories of California’s Owens Valley by attending to the implications of its peculiar hydrology. At the turn of the twentieth century, a lack of water resources threatened to stall the gro

This book explores the unexpected beauty of everyday objects temporarily covered in the urban landscape. From bikes to cars, barbecues to patio furniture, and even plants, these covered objects are often along our paths, yet we’re never quite sure wh

A celebration of amateurism by Erik Kessels, one of the most original figures in today’s art and design scene, 'Complete Amateur' explains how to let go of everything you know and embrace things you know nothing about. Full of brilliant masterpieces