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PFA(rt)S

2026 | Group Exhibition, landscape of exposure & Projection for a Spoiled Soil

“PFA(rt)S presents a ‘landscape of exposure’: a multi-media installation exploring the tension between our physical proximity to pollution and our societal inability to see it, challenging us to face the reality of accountability on a forever polluted planet. Audiences are invited not only to reflect but to actively engage with these realities as they experience the work.”

Credits: This is a group exhibition hosted by Colectiva Maleza. Artists: Delta van Melle, Noortje De Brouwer, Dayana Corzo Joya, Emma de Cicetty, Mark van Hoek and Marta Meers

Projection for a Spoiled Soil

Projection for a Spoiled Soil (P.F.A.S.S.) is video installation addressing the PFAS, or “forever chemical,” crisis in Antwerp and beyond. Born from the contamination of my grandparents’ garden, this project transforms the M HKA rooftop into a space for encounters where artists, scientists, journalists, and affected communities converge. This initiative is rooted in the shared practice of Colectiva Maleza, growing from our ongoing conversations about care, positioning art as a form of resistance.

Through a series of workshops we invited communities across Belgium and the Netherlands directly impacted by PFAS to grow their own mycelium cinema screens. These root-like fungal networks are a biomaterial that carry the trace of its specific location and the hands that collaborated with them. Assembled into a mosaic cinema screen, this surface will host a curated selection of short films about soil pollution and ecological resistance. The films will be projected in a loop.