Lotekno ᮜᮧᮒᮦᮊ᮪ᮔᮧ

Komunitas Salihara Gallery
Jl. Salihara No. 16 Jakarta Selatan
16 August — 15 September 2015

125,660 Specimens of Natural History is an ongoing curatorial research project about colonial natural history collections and the environmental transformations they produced, and the legacy of these activities, known as the Anthropocene. The project follows the course of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), best known for co-discovering the theory of evolution by natural selection. From 1854 to 1862, Wallace travelled the Malay Archipelago, documenting the region’s biodiversity and amassing a gigantic collection of specimens for European museums. The project invites artists to retrace, re-appropriate or reassess the expedition, its documents, and its various artifacts, and explores how trans-cultural collaborative approaches to artistic and scientific practice can address urgent environmental questions.