Radial Minds

Curated by Oorja

Artists: Natalia Mejia Murillo, Raqs Media Collective, Weina Li

April 17 - April 30, 2025

How do we imagine the Alien? Is it a distant Other, or does it demand a radical shift in perspective? The exhibition is a speculative space where thought experiments unsettle fixed ideas about life, knowledge, and existence, urging audiences to leave with more questions than answers. At its core, the exhibition blurs the boundaries between disciplines, merging scientific inquiry and artistic speculation. It interrogates the extractive logics of space exploration, mirroring how nonhuman life is treated on Earth. It combines planetary sciences, astrobiology, and speculative philosophy to rethink how we define life and habitability. To suggest a different way of looking at the planet, the exhibition proposes radial or pentapodal thinking, inspired by Donna Haraway’s sympoiesis (“making-with”), which rejects binaries in favor of tentacular, multidirectional knowledge systems. Can we rethink habitability beyond human-centered narratives? What if we are the Alien? This is not a vision of conquest, but of co-existence, entanglement, and planetary becoming.