THE LAND REMEMBERS is a group exhibition by DADDY Magazine examining the ongoing realities of waste colonialism. The term describes the export of waste from the Global North to the Global South, where the material consequences of overconsumption are displaced rather than resolved.
What is framed as recycling, donation or circularity operates as a system that sustains imbalance. Consumption remains concentrated in one place, while its environmental and social costs are lived in another. In sustainability discourse, the language of exchange often suggests reciprocity. In practice, the conditions are uneven. Materials accumulate elsewhere, entering land, water and infrastructures already under strain. The exhibition takes this disjunction as its starting point.
Bringing together artists working across video, installation and performance, THE LAND REMEMBERS traces how waste moves, settles and persists. The works consider land and bodies as sites that register these movements over time. Memory here is not symbolic. It is material. Rather than approaching waste as an endpoint, the exhibition positions it as evidence of systems that continue to shape the present.