MALU PEETERS

Sumatra, early twentieth century. The exploitation of rubber by Dutch colonisers leads to the sexual enslavement of female workers. Archival and contemporary images intertwine in a documentary fabulation that plunges into the depth of a long-erased history.

Archival images of corporate propaganda from rubber plantations, fragments of written correspondence, and contemporary images converge in this two‑channel installation. Excerpts From A Plantocracy unfolds a layered composition whose haunting soundscape, assembled from fragments of field recordings and foley sound, lingers between past and present.