Sensing Interdependence

Sensing Interdependence is a retrospective exhibition dedicated to the work of A4C–Arts For the Commons, the artistic platform founded by Ecuadorian artist Rosa Jijón and Italian activist and researcher Francesco Martone. Presented at de Appel, Amsterdam (27 June–10 August 2025), the exhibition explores the intersections of contemporary art, political ecology, and social justice through projects addressing human mobility, environmental conflicts, the commons, and the Rights of Nature.

Bringing together installations, video works, archives, and critical cartographies, the exhibition invites visitors to rethink relationships between people, territories, and the more-than-human world. Conceived as an archipelago of interconnected "geographies," it proposes new ways of sensing interdependence through artistic research, collective action, and ecological imagination.

This page presents selected excerpts from the accompanying publication, offering an introduction to the exhibition's central themes, artworks, and critical essays. Together, they provide a glimpse into A4C's practice and the broader conversations that shaped the project. The full catalogue, edited by Aria Spinelli, is available for purchase through Joint Cultural Initiatives.

The exhibition was curated by Aria Spinelli and produced by Joint Cultural Initiatives in collaboration with de Appel, with the support of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture through the Italian Council programme (13th edition, 2024).