Week 181 – February 27 to March 5

Valeria Troubina

Дворец снов, Wishing Tree, mixed media, 24 x 18cm, 2024

Manuela Morgaine

Tinder’s data bank – still from Gala Hernández López ‘s movie “La mécanique des fluides”, 2022
Thinking of Safety boxes in banks, this image reappeared in my mind. All those virtual lovers, all those swipings, matchings and datings contained in this gigantic data base. Isn’t this the very representation of the end of love? Mechanization and the boxing of thousands of dehumanized solitudes?

Ruth Maclennan

Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, October 2023
An ecosystem is a peculiar kind of self-organizing archive – a collection of interconnected things rubbing along together, reliant on each other, connected with other organisms and systems, adapting to changing environmental conditions, or dying. Click here to read more

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