The exhibition Residual Flourishing features a collaboration between artists Raquel Versieux and Silvia Noronha, who assess soil degradation — a consequence of unsustainable practices such as mining — as a starting point, focus on soil contamination and heterogeneity as opportunities for artistic interventions and environmental regeneration initiatives. Raquel Versieux and Silvia Noronha work at the intersection of art, ecology, and cultural memory, investigating the consequences of human actions on colonized landscapes, promoting a collection of materials.

Thus, Residual Flourishing is configured as a living, collaborative process that will transform the exhibition space into a dynamic archive of interactions and reflections. Over five days, Versieux and Noronha will facilitate activities that reinterpret waste and debris, both as artistic materials and as agents of ecological change, encouraging new forms of engagement with these things. Through materials collected at the Haus der Statistik and its surroundings, the exhibition examines the characteristics of the soil as well as the consequences of its contamination, proposing these ruins as access points to both physical and historical memories and archives.

The vegetation of waste emerges as a proposal by the artists to demonstrate how soils are increasingly degraded and heterogeneous — highlighting the need for engagement and coexistence with these soils. The ruins and debris are recognized not only as remnants of past actions but as archival sources of time, revealing the dynamism of the forces that shape our environments.

Residual Flourishing is part of the project “Devolver a Terra à Terra” (Returning the Earth to Earth), which is an ongoing project that investigates the spiritual, political, identitarian and cultural aspects of the land. The project is composed of exhibitions, film screenings and public programs that invite spectators to delve into narratives that foster nature-culture agencies. The issue of territory materializes and permeates all the works, encouraging discourse on subjectivity, coexistence, and resistance, bringing out the circumstantial geographies of Brazil as a starting point for a broader investigation in Latin America.

Co-Making Matters is a multidisciplinary platform located at Haus der Statistik that aims to foster collaborations and partnerships among practitioners from different fields. The project offers a space for exhibitions, discussions, and hybrid events and operates across multiple segments, including making, collaborating, hosting, and linking.

Co-Making Matters provides a supportive environment for site-specific projects and temporary interventions, with the goal of creating long-lasting partnerships. The platform is designed to promote cross-disciplinary thinking and encourages open communication, exchange, and learning.