This installation imagines the rediscovery of an ex-situ wildlife conservation centre in 2034. The work is loosely inspired by the Centre of Hydrobiology in Wuhan, where the last Yangtze River dolphin perished. The narration by a fictionalised curator accompanies the piece.
Objects in this exhibition are drawn partly from the centre in Wuhan, while others are borrowed from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Half fictional and half anthropological, this work is a feral assemblage that poses the question of what happens to conservation and the memories it engendered when care and attention run out.
Listen to the audio tour here:
https://on.soundcloud.com/eqWgbXFobEkhunV46
