Diewke van den Heuvel, Cave, from the series Melting Heart, 2020. Digital print on recycled pet-bottle fabric, dimensions variable. Courtesy: the artist and TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville.

The Soils Project exhibition brings together 13 practitioners and collectives from Australia, the Netherlands, and Indonesia to explore the complex and diverse relationships between environmental change and colonisation.

The exhibition is the latest iteration of an ongoing research-based experimental project developed in collaboration with TarraWarra Museum of Art, leading contemporary art museum the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands, and Struggles for Sovereignty, a collective based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The Soils Project arises from specific and situated practices that each of the participants and artists brings to their understanding of soil, as both metaphor and matter.

The Soils Project embraces the deep histories of each participant’s location, examining the multiplicity of landscapes and environments, and the impact of colonisations and global industries on cultural heritage, land management, and traditional knowledges.

Exhibited artists include Peta Clancy, Megan Cope, Keg de Souza, D Harding, Wapke Feenstra, Diewke van der Heuvel, Lian Gogali and Moelyono.