Lithic Alliance

Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium

Artist statement

Lithic Alliance deals with the potentiality of geological environments, the relationships they are engaged with and produced by, as well as their ontological significance in the creation of systems. The project, initiated in 2020 by Swiss artist Daniel V. Keller who graduated with a MFA from Goldsmiths London and a BFA from Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, engages with the lithosphere as an active agent in the construction of these relationships, and aims to crystalize their polyphonic agencies in a more-than-human world. The research that underpins Lithic Alliance focuses on the mineralized co-inhabitants of this planet and their transformations which shape the present, namely their status as massively accelerated mined resources within current social structures and power relations. By digging into the realms of animisms, rights of nature and ways of communicating within ecologies, it investigates connections spanning over vast temporalities to identify phenomenological correspondence. Lithic Alliance sees itself as a fluid compound of diverse constituents, and seeks to manifest these enquiries through visual and performative methods collaboratively.

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