Those Who Move Through Matter

Those Who Move Through Matter. Art Exhibition Contemporary art, displacement, memory and materiality at Bardo Projektraum, Berlin 9–29 October 2026 Vernissage: Friday, 9 October, 18:00 Bardo Projektraum, Jessnerstraße 33, 10247 Berlin What moves when people move — and what remains embedded in matter? 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. Curated by House of Half Ideas — Dzekashu MacViban and Kenan Khadaj, the exhibition brings together works by Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Mohsen Hazrati and Yupanqui Ramos, whose practices engage with different forms of material, digital and temporal displacement. 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, Those Who Move Through Matter 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 presenting them as fixed or complete narratives. Across installation, digital technologies, material practices and performance, the three artists open different paths through these questions, bringing together ecological, technological and cultural forms of displacement.