Artist Tour

In their prize-winning projects, Laura Huertas Millán (b. 1983, Colombia) and Sarker Protick (b. 1986, Bangladesh) explore from different perspectives and geographical contexts how colonial structures continue to shape our contemporary relationship to nature today. The filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán explores the cultural, medicinal, and ritual uses of the coca plant, using fiction as a strategy to deconstruct colonial narratives. The photographer Sarker Protick examines the extensive changes imposed by humans by coal mining on the Indian subcontinent. His work transfers the examination of the colonial history of Bengal to a photographic study of the present and sheds light on the impact of imperialism on the climate crisis. 

Together with junior curator Katharina Täschner, the artists will guide visitors through the double exhibition and provide insights into the development processes of their respective projects and the conception of the exhibition as part of the After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 24.