Those Who Move Through Matter
Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Mohsen Hazrati, Yupanqui Ramos
An exhibition on displacement as a movement that also travels through objects, materials, technologies, and ecosystems.
Those Who Move Through Matter approaches displacement not only as a geographical or human condition, but as a movement that also takes place through objects, materials, technologies, memories, and ecosystems. What moves when people move — and what stays embedded in matter?
From soil, crops, and biological resources to data, technological infrastructures, and inherited narratives, the exhibition asks what happens when matter is removed, transported, transformed, or reclassified. A seed carried across continents, an object separated from its original context, or a technology inserted into another system can carry histories of extraction, colonialism, migration, and ecological transformation.
Rather than treating the non-human as a passive backdrop to human movement, the exhibition considers matter itself as a bearer of memory. Materials retain traces of the systems through which they circulate: economies, borders, technologies, and histories of power. Drawing on ideas of fragmented archives and critical fabulation, the exhibition also asks how histories marked by absence, violence, and displacement might be revisited without being presented as fixed or complete.
Across installation, digital technologies, material practices, and performance, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Mohsen Hazrati, and Yupanqui Ramos open different paths through these questions, bringing together ecological, technological, and cultural forms of displacement.
Public programme
- 9 October, from 18:00 — Vernissage, with an artist talk and guided tour with Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Mohsen Hazrati, and Yupanqui Ramos
- 12 October, 18:30 — Curating the Unfinished, a guest lecture by Dzekashu MacViban and Kenan Khadaj, presented as part of Art Intensive Berlin 2026 / All About Curating
- 29 October, from 18:00 — Finissage, with an artist talk and guided tour with Gabriella Torres-Ferrer and Yupanqui Ramos
Admission is free.
Credits
Curated by House of Half Ideas — Dzekashu MacViban and Kenan Khadaj, Those Who Move Through Matter is a Berlin-based project by Karne Kunst gUG, presented at Bardo Projektraum under the artistic direction of Marcela Villanueva . It is supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.