Toxic Transits Exhibition: Spring 2024
Participating Artists: Sammy Baloji, Judit Fritz, Alma Heikkilä, Cecilia Jonsson, Jennie Leino, Suska Mackert, Alice Pallot, Bernhard Schobinger. Historical books from the Hagströmer Library’s collections from across disciplines - from alchemy, to botany, metallurgy, geology, and toxicology - were included in the exhibition.
Curation: Beatrice Brovia & Nicolas Cheng
The exhibition Toxic Transits investigates the relations between toxicity, body, and environment in a more-than-human world. Central to the exhibition is its exploration of toxicity as both an agent and concept that disrupts dichotomous worldviews, revealing how the human body and non-human natures are intimately co-constituted.
The artworks in the exhibition, set in dialogue with historical books and material from the Hagströmer Medico-Historical library’s collections, reveal deep-running interconnections between life and non-life; exposure and protection; tenderness and morbidity. The exhibition is an invitation to think with toxicity, to follow its transits and what they make visible in the proximities between bodies and environments.
📅 The exhibition ran during the spring of 2024.
Contact person
Anna Lantz , hagstromerlibrary@ki.se 070-555 2736
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