The Day it Rains Jellyfish Part I: On what we know proposes to seek knowledge beyond the Western paradigm of scientific knowledge.

Text my Sister x Light-Harvesting Complex
25.09 – 5.10.2025

Opening Event: 25.09, 17:00 – 19:00
Location: Light-Harvesting Complex, llola, Vantaa
General visiting: by appointment

The Day it Rains Jellyfish Part I: On what we know proposes to seek knowledge beyond the Western paradigm of scientific knowledge. We look at the many stories that are part of our world, those that are generated on the margins, those that are shaped by our natural surroundings, those that are written down in storybooks, stories that seek to explain the unexplainable and those that have been told from generation to generation. By doing so, we emphasise alternatives to the dominant Western narrative and divert from scientific knowledge as a main or only source. On what we know builds towards knowledge pluralism, which highlights diverse ways of perceiving and knowing.

In the West, ways of knowing that are not scientific have been and still are being excluded, devalued, appropriated or ignored. These are bodies of knowledge that have been shaped and built by peoples that have been marginalized, oppressed or colonized; knowledge systems that are usually tightly connected to geographical location, local environment and ancestral history. The works in this exhibition are informed by spirituality, folklore, intergenerational knowledge and indigenous knowledge — all knowledge systems that were developed within cultural and social ways of organizing that do not comply with the dominant Western narrative.

The exhibition highlights various marginalized bodies of knowledge, allowing for a situation to occur where these truths co-exist, even if they would contradict each other. The exhibition abandons the dichotomy of things as being true or false, to reach beyond a binary way of thinking in order to illustrate that there is more than one truth. On what we know builds an epistemology that is diverse and complex. It is a way of knowing, composed of multiple truths and narratives that overlap or counter each other, but that above all insists on knowledge pluralism that reached beyond a singular understanding of truth.

This exhibition is part of the trilogy The Day it Rains Jellyfish, which looks into the generative possibilities of conspiracy.

Participating artists: Ginko Hsu, Venus Jasper, Kwinnie Lê, Kate Ruck, Anna Slama and Marek Delong, Reneé Bus

Curated by: Julia Fidder & Len Creutzburg

With the support of: Taike Art Promotion Center Finland, Cultuur Fonds Noord-Brabant

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