Case No. ARB/24/44

installation, booklet (2023-2024)
Artist in Residency with The Asser Institute, The Hague

I work with the visual traces of Case No. ARB/24/44, an international arbitration between a gas company and the Netherlands which was filed in October 2024.The work not only speaks about the case study of the Groningen gas field, but also about the designed inaccessibility of such arbitrations and a world where states are often complicit with companies when the revenues are high enough, until the people pressure them to reconsider. By borrowing the language of activism, I tackle the abstract postcolonial frameworks of Investor-State-Dispute Settlement and ask the audience: Where is the public interest?
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Case No. ARB/24/44 is the outcome of a residency at the Asser Institute, a research centre for international and European law in The Hague. Over the period of four months I worked alongside two other artists in residency, being in close contact with researchers at the Asser Institute, especially Dr. Stephanie Triefus.
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The collaboration culminated in the exhibition Lens on Law: Edges of Proximity at West Den Haag in February 2025, together with West‘s Grand Opening.