How is the environmental degradation of a river in northern Europe linked to macrohistories of colonialism, land dispossession and industrial extractions?
Through a ‘permeable’ lens, the traces of microscopic absorptions of pollutants in the river uncover a past chain of events, revealing histories of greed, violence and environmental destruction. In a subversive act towards a scientific and modern ideology, the agency of the polluted river is amplified through the misuse of chromatography. This collaborative photographic performance reveals the chemical composition of the soil’s compounds and it’s pollutants. Practicing under the ideal of demodernization, we initiated a beyond-human communication with earth, on a macroscopic scale and in wavelengths visible to human eyes.
