AFTER THE DUMP / Randall’s Island, New York, 2011–2017

Randall’s Island is built on the remains of a landfill. The ground carries the memory of buried waste, shifting tides, and fragile ecologies. After the Dump represents an early engagement with post-industrial territories as living archives — places where infrastructure, toxicity, and landscape are entangled in slow and unresolved temporalities.

As an international juror for the FLOW exhibitions organized by the Bronx Museum and Randall’s Island Park Alliance, I worked alongside curators, artists, and local institutions to select and support site-specific interventions. Many of the projects treated the contaminated ground as a material and symbolic field: they traced its scars, responded to its instability, and speculated on new ways of inhabiting it.

This experience laid the groundwork for my ongoing research on post-extractive landscapes and metabolic infrastructures. It opened a space between art and territory, between infrastructural memory and collective imagination — a space that continues to shape my practice today.