A founding principle of REST's thinking is that the merging of materials acts as a form of memory. Every landscape is connected to earlier ways of living; they are saturated with traces of this past. Traces that speak from multiple historical moments at once — never simply a window onto what has been, but also a mirror that reveals what we currently want, seek, or need. In this way, material histories always produce a mixed, complex, and diffuse image in the present. The unravelling of this is the point of departure for every possible future.

In this year the focus is on the foundation — the soil — and concerns sedimentatie; material at rest. How, through settling and accumulation, information and traces from the past are retained, conserved, and stored. It looks at the underlying dynamics that determine why certain things persist while others decay or are forgotten. How is the image of our collective memory formed?

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