Year program: Exhibition Exchange program, publication, reading groups, screening event

Dates: September 2025 – July 2026

Locations: Light-Harvesting Complex (Vantaa, Finland), Industra (Brno, Czech Republic), Van Abbehuis (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

The trilogy The Day it Rains Jellyfish looks into the generative possibilities of conspiracy. Through three exhibitions we approach and define conspiracy as an undermining act that seeks to counter dominant narratives and the idea of a singular ‘objective truth’. Simultaneously, The Day it Rains Jellyfish is an inquiry towards the power mechanisms behind these modes of truth-building. When we choose to live in the safeness of the supposed general truth, and conform to the idea of a singularity in truth, it is easy to frown upon the proposal of alternatives. This trilogy gradually builds towards a different understanding of truth. One that is based on a non-binary approach of truth, one that goes beyond labeling things as being only true or false. We build towards a truth that is rooted in multiplicity and accepts that one truth does not have to terminate the other. 

In the West, we tend to adhere to a singular perspective of the truth. This ‘objective truth’ is rooted in a scientific approach which creates the dominant narratives the masses adhere to. The Day it Rains Jellyfish refuses to comply with a single dominant narrative that mainly benefits the privileged. Instead, we shine light on alternative knowledge and perspectives. We highlight truths that are not generated solely from a rationalized world-view but that instead go beyond the Western scientific perspective on knowledge. In the exhibitions we see truth as a collage of voices and perspectives, a modge podge of stories that, when bundled together, can create something that seems to come close to what truth truly defines. We re-examine the perception of validity of these truths by looking at the mechanisms of exclusion and marginalisation behind them. We subvert current notions on who has the right to tell a story and whose stories are validated and trusted. In doing so, we question the established social hierarchy that allows for a power imbalance within truth-building to occur.

In the three exhibitions, we come together to undermine the dominant narratives and conspire in order to come towards multivocal worlds. We imagine alternatives for a more symbiotic present within the search towards a shared reality of tomorrow; we dream of alternatives for societal structures, to overthrow the political-social dynamics of exclusion, to counter hyper-individuality, to go against the marginalization of peoples and perspectives, we dream of living in abundance, of multiplying to become one of many and many of one. These alternatives emerge through speculation, collective narration, fiction and alternative realities. In this process, we embrace multiple truths, opening space for a polyvocal response, one that challenges and reconfigures the foundations of dominant Western narratives. Daring to dream these alternative futures is an act or resistance. Turning these imaginations into reality is an act of defiance. Becoming multiform is our solidarity. Forming alliances is our strength. Our protest is a conspiracy. We are a conspiracy.