Benedetta Casagrande, All Thing Laid Dormant, 2024

All Things Laid Dormant questions the ways in which we relate to animals, the space they occupy in our personal and collective imagination, intraspecific coexistence and the possibility of constructing new forms of kinship and intimacy in a context of mass extinction. Articulated through a series of encounters with the non-human world, mediated by the implicit ambiguity of photography as a medium that simultaneously facilitates and obstructs contact, All Things Laid Dormant is both an ode and an expression of mourning that embodies the suffering of mourning and the desire to rediscover a place and a sense of belonging in the fragile context of our time.