KFF 2026: ENTANGLEMENTS

EXHIBITION SPACE

Sat 18 & Sun 19 JulyBertrand Russel Room

The KFF2026 exhibition space has been designed to give visitors an opportunity to spend time with the experimental approaches, concepts and explorations of this year’s festival theme: entanglements that surpass categories and binaries. The works showcased here go beyond definitions of species, scale, identity, class and the senses. They notice that which is obscured or hidden, point us towards how to live with each other, and pave the way to form kinship alongside beings that are not categorised as human.

Survival Instincts
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Survival Instincts

by Lian Ryan

Survival Instincts is a paper installation dissolving boundaries between human, organism, and the technological by visualising a hybrid creature. This acts as a metaphor for anxieties during a time of rapid technological change and shifting methods of identification and survival mechanisms.

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PLASTICENE
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PLASTICENE

by Natalia Mchedlishvili

PLASTICENE is a four-part video installation that documents moments where the artist’s attention was captured by a visual harmony of consumer waste in a natural environment. The installation explores how pollution is a permanent, camouflaged fixture to the environment, rather than a disruption to it.

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Wildlife Leaflets (Tracts Pour la Vie Sauvage)
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Wildlife Leaflets (Tracts Pour la Vie Sauvage)

by Anna Dossmann

Are animals cisgender and straight? That's what animal documentaries would make us believe. Wildlife Leaflets is a series of three short videos in which animals ‘hack’ the documentaries they are the subject of, to assert their queerness with fervour and humour.

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Being-with the Softness
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Being-with the Softness

by Vianney Pétré

Being-with the Softness is a 3D video built from the reproduction of two slugs. The image remains blurred and unstable. Bodies are barely distinguishable, and organic surfaces merge into a single viscous matter. Nothing appears in full clarity.

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Čuoikkariššu (Mosquito Shower)
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Čuoikkariššu (Mosquito Shower)

by Nicola Renzi & Mai Britt Utsi

Čuoikkariššu / Mosquito Shower explores the tension between discomfort and coexistence through the itchy sound of mosquitoes, tiny beings with an outsized ecological role in increasingly fragile Arctic ecosystems.

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Southwark Park Stroll
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Southwark Park Stroll

by Yunzhi/Melissa Li

Southwark Park Stroll is a site-specific installation that works with the surrounding park as a shared environment, examining the unseen ecosystems that coexist with us in everyday spaces. In addition to this, the installation works in dialogue with the Microbe Sampling Lab workshops, growing directly with the samples collected by participants.

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Walking Choir
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Walking Choir

by Voicing, facilitated by soft shock

The short film ‘Walking Choir’ traces the walk along the Kentish coastline from Broadstairs to Margate, where the community choir were given scores composed in response to the coastline and inspired by Irish Gaelic folk songs of pilgrimage.

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Guttera Khaali (Under the Gutter)
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Guttera Khaali (Under the Gutter)

by Snigdha Rana

Guttera Khali (Under the Gutter) is an ongoing stop-motion film through pinhole photographs that investigates the sewers of Mumbai, often reminiscent of London’s underground networks. The fecal matters that traverse the hidden infrastructures, the work examines climate change, and the overlooked ecological consequences embedded within urban systems.

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Unwintering
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Unwintering

by Aria Danaparamita

Unwintering is an attempt to refuse defeat and reweave an embodied relation with the land. An ongoing project, the artist, Mita, began documenting seasonal transitions in woods along the River Lea where they live as a boater, witnessing and being with trees, bramble, and soil as they transform with time.

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FLOOD
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FLOOD

by Anouch Basbous

In this two-channel video installation, the artist returns to a visit to a cemetery located in an industrial area on the outskirts of Beirut to encounter with a strange body of water seen between two concrete walls.

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