shadow circuits: film selection at WORM
As part of the current exhibition shadow circuits, we join forces with our next-door neighbour WORM for a movie night. Join us for a selection of short films that focus on journeys on cargo ships, against the backdrop of the current precarity of logistics in the context of inflation, the automation of labour and war. With the sea as a political and poetic landscape, the films explore globalisation, the pollution of our resources and the people who labour at different sites along the supply chain. With works by Natasa Efstathiadi, Rosalind Nashashibi, Diana Al Halabi and Mohamed Abdelkarim.
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Come visit shadow circuits in our showroom wed-sun from 14:00-19:00. Every first Friday of the month 14:00-21:00Open until May 3rd.
shadow circuits explores how gas, minerals and other raw materials move around the world and how these elemental flows are connected with our day-to-day lives. The exhibition shifts our attention from large-scale industrial images, such as sea containers in the Rotterdam harbour, to small and intimate stories—to people, plants and animals that slip through the cracks of global trade flows, such as ghost laborers on palm oil fields and invasive species caught on ships. In this way, shadow circuits bridges the gap between the unquestioned everyday use of mineral resources and the painfully hidden history of extraction and transport.
Ruby Reding is an artist based in Rotterdam, working with sculpture, poetry, and moving image. Her practice explores our disconnection from resource supply chains, infrastructures, and from one another. Through fieldwork at sites such as water engineering structures, mines, and factories, and by working with scrap materials and archives, Ruby seeks ways of building intimacy with material realities shaped by extraction and late capitalism.
