The Exotic Fruit Section (2026)​

Installation

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PVC strip curtain,

steel,

retail rolling stools,

4K video with audio (13 min.)

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A cold storage chapel with poetic essay film.

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An intergenerational approach on the longing for a decolonised origin and authenticity. It questions themes of belonging, potential and growth, and the global imbalanced neocolonial distribution of produce and soil fertility flux.

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Here, frozen isolated exotics long for the rich warm flavour of an unfulfilled potential, of growth from a grounded home.

 

This chapel is outlined with matt semitransparent PVC strip curtains, you would normally find in food wholesalers to partition cold tropical produce. Plotted in a cross the abstracted architecture represents the christian construct and extractive cultivation of produce my ancestral tribe chose to abide by to survive. The altar holds a wide video screen, showing an essayistic and poetic film scored with synthesisers and my voice. It narrates non-linearly, lyrically, poetically and at times descriptively, in associated fragments. Turning in loops and curls into one whole.

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In its constellation of filmic fragments, a longing for decolonized roots is tangible. (...) imported produce that can no longer hold meaning for the land from which it originates.

- Esther Darley for Mondriaan Fund

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Supported by Mondriaan Funds, KF Hein Fund, Instituut voor Beeld & Geluid, en Fonds Kwadraat

 

Exhibited at:

Mondriaan Prospects at Art Rotterdam 2026, Rotterdam