Daughters of Uranium considers the nuclear era and the encoding of militarized conflict on the body. Derived from the chemical sciences, the term “daughters of uranium” refers to the decay chain of naturally occurring uranium (U-235 being the crucial element for sustaining a nuclear chain reaction) while evoking generations born into an uncertain future.

Referencing a century of increasingly catastrophic weapons of war and their environmental and psychological impact, Daughters of Uranium unfolds in chapters that weave personal and political narratives through inscription and collection: drawing, sculpture, assemblage, photography, and film. Cultural anthropologist, Peter C. van Wyck describes the exhibition as a territorial archive in which “the archive as site shifts towards the archive as practice,” and one that “calls into question temporal and topographical notions of scale and proximity.” Using materials that are literally radioactive such as glass coloured with uranium oxide, or trinitite samples - a mineral forged during the first atomic bomb blast, the work radically challenges notions of contamination and containment, invisibility, violence, exposure and evidence.