Dark Matter(s) is based on a performative polyphonic reading of fragments on photographic, photosynthetic and ecological processes and the ultimate limits of matter. This proposal is suggesting a material essay with a dark holistic approach: Dark Matter(s) will unfold in character, as authored and organized by a last human or first vegetal persona. Collected writings on, drawings and photograms of, and becomings with dark matter in an archive of darkness, rather than a white cube, staged in between greenhouse and herbarium, hospital and bestiarium, solarium and darkroom.

Dark Matter(s) brings a diverse flora of photographic, scientific, ecological and science-fictional methods into critical dialogue with each other. Dealing with dark symbolic and symbiotic relationships between patients and agents like Green Men, Tree Man (Epidermodysplasia verruciformis) and Human Grey Pea Dark Matter(s) is concerned with otherness and strange ecologies.

How to image and imagine a future of less-human-than-vegetal beings and bodies? The unnamed persona submerged in and emerging from Dark Matter(s) appears as oracle and shapeshifter of language, body and identity. The dark archive is activated with Mendellian love letters to peas, karaoke lectures on seedings, seedlings and siblings, peas growing in the dark, drawings of Green Men with Tree Man hands – beyond both natural and national (b)orders, like a coronavirus.