Clementine Edwards (DAI, 2018) writes us: "I'm thinking about the different ways that violence and love and trauma are inherited, communicated and reiterated, and I'm writing on the second day of the ICJ hearing against Israel, brought to the international court of justice by South Africa. SA has invoked the genocide convention, asking the ICJ to issue Israel provisional measures ordering ceasefire. On Sunday I'm showing a new video in Rotterdam. This video is not about that, but for sure what's going on in my world makes its way into my work. ~ Toxic Inheritances (2024) tells stories of white phosphorus. Light-bearing and brutally hot, white phosphorus is pyrophoric, meaning it combusts on contact with air. The new video considers the role of inheritance and storytelling in human-chemical relations and grammars of the (super)natural. It is a deepening of my studio exploration around the subject, and a sort of fictionalised sketch of a 'family tree' for the chemical substance. " Toxic Inheritances 14 January, 3-6pm WET Film, Hillevliet 90, 3074 KD Rotterdam (3rd floor via stairs on the left-hand side when you enter) ~ video runs for approx 6 minutes & it will loop~