Fields of Power: Sovereignty, Survival, and Resistance in Global Food Systems. Group exhibition, 30 October 2024

 

Mentored by Lina Attalah, Guest Professor at Forensic Architecture

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Fields of Power interrogates the entanglements of sovereignty, survival, and resistance within global food systems, tracing how power is cultivated, distributed, and contested across agricultural landscapes.

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Through three critical lenses — Michoacán’s avocado belt, besieged Gaza, and the European farmers’ protests — the exhibition examines the infrastructures of control underpinning modern agriculture and their implications for autonomy, ecology, and labour.

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In Michoacán, the normalisation of violence within avocado production exposes how global demand intertwines with organised crime and environmental degradation. In Gaza, food sovereignty becomes an act of resistance under blockade, where survival itself is conditioned by militarised borders and disrupted aid. Across Europe, farmers’ protests reveal a parallel struggle: confronting corporate agribusiness and state policy in a system that demands innovation while enforcing dependence.

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Together, these narratives reveal the political depth of the infra-ordinary — the fields, tools, and gestures that sustain daily life yet conceal histories of conflict, extraction, and resilience.
By reading agriculture as a field of power — material, symbolic, and geopolitical — the exhibition opens a dialogue on how landscapes of production become sites of both domination and defiance.

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Fields of Power was mentored by Lina Attalah, Guest Professor at Forensic Architecture, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London.

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 research-architecture.org/Fields-of-Power

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