The interactive workshop SCHADUWSOORTEN takes (almost) extinct species as its starting point, viewing them as traces of a world that no longer exists. Pick one of the large shadow puppets, and move through the exhibition space to temporarily revive these extinct animals and as such make their absence felt. The project dives into the ways we relate to forms of loss that cannot be undone. An extinct species is not only a reminder of what has been lost, but also a witness of the relationships, desires and power dynamics that have shaped our world.

SCHADUWSOORTEN creates space to stay with the loss, without immediately translating it into a solution or a promise of hope. The loss is given a place as part of the world in which we live: as an absence, as a memory and as an awareness of what once was. In this way, loss does not become something we must rid ourselves of, but something we are learning to relate to anew.