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- A Letter from Yene emerges from conversations with the community in the seaside town of Yene, Senegal, where Diawara lives for part of the year. The area was traditionally and primarily occupied by fishermen and farmers but has in recent decades been besieged by coastal erosion and uncontrolled urbanisation. Fish have become scarce and the pirogues, traditional fishing boats, cannot go far enough into the sea, so their owners have turned to new occupations. Modern fishing requires motorised boats and large nets made from non-biodegradable wires that become lethally entangled with purple coral, and human detritus, eventually washing up on shores like woven creatures of the sea. The women who used to smoke fish and preserve it as part of a sustainable mode of living now sell pebbles to the owners of the newly built houses. The sand, granite, shells and pebbles that affluent house owners buy to build, decorate and protect their homes against the winds and salt of the sea contribute, ironically, to the degradation of the bottom layers of the ocean and intensify coastal erosion. A Letter from Yene is produced by Maumaus/Lumiar Cité and commissioned by Serpentine, MUBI and PCAI Polygreen Culture and Art Initiative as part of Serpentine's Back to Earth project, with additional support from Ministério da Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Dakar.
- KEPLER is a newly discovered planet with supposedly, same air and ground conditions like earth.
- In a world where drones take on the role of spirits and co-exist with living species, Thai artist Korakrit Arunanondchai tackles the subject of death.
- The film of Alavanou comprises footage shot in the small farming village Los Ángeles in South Ecuador, images from the historical propaganda dioramas in the museum of Guayaquil and a mixture of text and sounds from 195Os American children's documentaries and TV series, such as Journey to Bananaland. The artist began her research, with the help of PCAI, from regions in Ecuador - the first country to recognize the rights of nature in its constitution - where Polyeco, a hazardous waste management company, has undertaken to remove the toxic pesticides formerly used in agriculture. In the film, the impact on the life of the locals and the behaviors and practices that propagandize for the presence of Western interests at the expense of indigenous communities are perceived as examples of a kind of 'toxic colonialism' that harms life itself far beyond any damage to the natural environment. In the video of Alavanou, the parasitic attributes of such mechanisms are also highlighted through sound, which is treated as an extra composite material created by an allegorical recycling of elements drawn from many different sources of pop culture.