Estelle Marois

total climate part 2: wavelengths

Group exhibition
Ali Cherri, Patricia Domínguez, Hessie, Karrabing Film Collective, Candice Lin
Nicoletti, London
31 May—29 July 29 2023

total climate is a three-part exhibition reflecting upon the relationship between colonial history and ecology, co-curated by artist Gaëlle Choisne, Nicoletti’s director Camille Houzé, and curator Estelle Marois. After having analysed how historical mechanisms and trauma are embedding themselves within the material composition of the environment in part 1: the infinitesimal and the mobile (June-July 2022), part 2: wavelengths (June-July 2023) focuses its attention on notions of knowledge and sensibilities, examining how colonialism operates within the formation of ‘intellectual climates’.

Featuring works by Ali Cherri, Patricia Domínguez, Hessie, Karrabing Film Collective and Candice Lin, this group exhibition reflects upon the ideologies hidden behind given forms of knowledge and practices—e.g. scientific objectivity, taxonomy, museology. Proposing an extension of the notion of knowledge, the artists in wavelengths invite us to apprehend nature and history in ways that are not limited to rational analysis, promoting instead modes of encountering the environment that can hold a multiplicity of standpoints while embracing incompleteness, emotions and sensations.