In this exhibition, Anais-karenin brings together works that examine how colonial-modern knowledge systems shape relationships with plants-stones-otherwise. The works trace how institutions, scientific classifications, and everyday forms of perception govern the ways entities acquire functions, meanings, and values within the world.

Through sculpture, sound, and installation, the exhibition approaches translation as a means of reactivating landscapes’ inherited stories, environmental processes, and situated cosmovisions. Unfolding across sensory forms, the works attend to the divisions through which matter becomes ordered as organic and inorganic, tracing the complexity of resituating these relations.

Anais-karenin evokes the liminal states of plant-stones and researches the ways colonial-modern projects mobilized them as objects of extractivist geopolitics and semiotics of power. Investigating how language produces worlds and their material consequences, she creates sensorial counter-narratives that activate complex modes of perception through symbols of transformation and continuity, translating herbal and mineral substances into sound, installation, sculpture, image, garden, scent, and performance.

Rooted in the healing cosmovisions of her land-working lineage from the semi-arid Brazilian Sertão, marked by the ‘Great Drought’ and environmental migration, Anais-karenin’s works move through interspecies displacement, inherited stories, and the entanglements between language and territory.

She concluded her PhD in Arts from the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and has exhibited in institutions such as Towada Art Center Museum (Japan), Kunstgallerie Villa Merkel (Germany), Museum of Contemporary Art Niterói (Brazil), The Museum of Modern Art Gunma (Japan), and has been awarded residencies such as the Singapore Art Museum Residency Program, and Tokyo Arts & Space, a program from the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Her research was presented in institutions such as Oxford University and the United Nations Conference.