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island gallery is pleased to present humilis, a group exhibition tracing the mutability of language and its grounding in the natural world. The work delves into the intricacies of personal and collective memory-keeping, exploring how these memories can be processed alchemically. Misremembrance intertwines with migratory experiences, presenting ecological facts and fictions, while uncovering power structures deeply rooted in language.

The word humilis is a Latin adjective derived from the noun humus, meaning "ground, dirt, earth." Here, language performs as an arbiter of value, …