ELSEWHERES takes a look at disciplines that excavate the ground searching for the past or the "roots" of our civilisations. Unearthing the most fascinating material remains left by past societies or animal species, archeology and palaeontology have been regarded as disciplines that "reveal" the truths of the past. But being rooted on western scientific parameters, they have inevitably perpetuated colonial discourses. The exhibition addresses this problematic and, in parallel, explores some of the other histories that objects, fragments and bones tell.

ELSEWHERES is the second exhibition of the series “Earth is the heaviest element” which addresses the need to de-construct and re-construct our relationship to the earth, other humans and non-human entities. The exhibitions bring together the knowledge and practices of Latin American and Swiss artists and scientists, in order to suggest alternative ways of co-existing.