Titled MORI, a Japanese word meaning ‘forests’, this exhibition will be an exploration of the unconscious, oral histories, observation and ownership as it relates to the forest. The exhibition is response to global deforestation, one of the consequences of which is the spread of disease from wild animals to humans. 
The title of the exhibition, MORI references one of the artworks featured in the exhibition by Chilean artist Gianfranco Foschino. Foschino’s video work was shot in the surroundings of Aomori Contemporary Art Centre in Japan. The static shots of the film capture the delicate and intimate aspects of nature in flux, in constantly changing, modulated light. Other works include Argentinean artist Varda Caivano’s abstract drawings, which seem to reference forests in relation to Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious. Japanese artist Atsuko Nakamura will present a site-specific installation using driftwood, demonstrating the notion of animism. Japanese artist Katsutoshi Yuasa and Taku Hisamura will exhibit artworks which are the outcome of their visits to Mt. Takao in Tokyo, questioning ownership and artificial intervention in nature. Mexican artist Noé Martínez will be invited to perform a poetry reading reflecting upon Huastec ancestors and the slave trade in the 16th Century.