A tropical panorama affected by rusted shopper items, a “cannibal market” in Indonesia the place machines are torn aside and offered for components. Inside Riar Rizaldi’s current movie Fossilis (2023) ¹ we encounter scenes which are onerous to resolve: are they speculative futures or present affairs?

The stay motion units of Rizaldi’s movie had been constructed completely from waste supplies, equivalent to a time machine constructed from the shell of a septic tank. What turns into of our waste? The place does it go? On this gentle, Fossilis turns into a phantasmagoric response to the worldwide manufacturing of digital waste, a lot of which is, in reality, dumped and buried in Asia.

Throughout the exhibition, sure units and props from the movie have been restaged. The exhibition begins with a transition level: a mirrored hall that each one viewers should move via. Within the movie, the protagonist traverses the identical hall earlier than being transported within the time machine. Is the hall in Z33 additionally a chance for transformation? By passing via this threshold, will we additionally turn out to be characters on this story of waste and renewal?

The exhibition “Fossilis” is in collaboration with Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL. The movie Fossilis was initially commissioned by Hyundai Artlab for the fifth VH Award.

Curated by
Kevin Gallagher

at Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Hasselt
till June 16, 2024