Eternit

Pedro Gossler received a grant for the development of new work. Eternit centres on the notion that humans have abdicated and replaced themselves with other subjects of history, a single subject: technology. By assuming a position of co-historicity with other raw materials that fuel the technological economy, a constant negotiation between ideas of progress and existential risks, biological and geological time, mortality and immortality occur. An anthropotechnic relationship where culture and morality animate nonliving matter while being animated, in turn, by its hidden potential for disaster. Often treated as either absolutely or relatively dead or inanimate, Asbestos does not simply fall away into the category of the nonliving, but through its toxicity continues to operate as an uncanny force across the divide that defines life.

Pedro is a Brazilian interdisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam, applying photography, video and animation to research the use of emory and archive in post-internet times. His work has been presented at the International Rotterdam Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, ZKM - Karlsruhe and Impakt, Utrecht, and recently won the prizes for best documentary at Sheffield Int Doc Fest and Most Innovative film at Visions du Réel. As well as being published on platforms such as DIS and Do Not Research and commissioned by Rupert, Lithuania.