ELISABETH MOLIN

In 1641, Descartes wrote: All that up to the present time I have accepted as most true and certain I have learned either from the senses or through the senses; but it is sometimes proved to me that these senses are deceptive, and it is wiser not to trust entirely to anything by which we have once been deceived. Because we sometimes cannot trust the knowledge that the senses haveprovided, Descartes reasons that we cannot trust them at all. Our vision displaces objects that our reason cannot back together again. But what does it mean then when we live in a world where everything has been displaced? Where homelands are destroyed, lives are exiled, labour is exploited, identities shaken and the environment is definitively separated from any notion of balance... Molin's works act like footnotes to reality. They help broaden our visual understanding, offer clarity and reveal what is hidden or overlooked.