Fotogalleriet and Kunstnernes Hus Kino invite you to the screening of DESERT PHOSfate (2023), followed by a conversation between Bennes and Labat.

DESERT PHOSfate is an experimental documentary by Sahrawi artist Mohamed Sleiman Labat. It weaves through the story of phosphate, exploring connections between land, sand particles, plants, human, and mineral displacement. Through poetics rooted in the desert, it highlights connections between ecological justice, colonial practices, environmental violence, traces of anthropocentric mineral extraction, and the loss of indigenous ways of knowing and telling about the world.

The screening is part of the program for the exhibition The Island, the Mine, and the Resistance Gardens by Crystal Bennes with Mohamed Sleiman Labat at the Fotogalleriet – a chapter in We Eat the Earth, an ongoing research project that follows phosphate fertilizer as a material and political actor through impacts in Sweden, Western Sahara, and Algeria.