Of Men and Gods and Mud

Part of a larger body of work which explores issues of human and environmental disasters, the history of ruins and rebirth, Of Men and Gods and Mud imagines the punishing construction of a dam as a portal to a fantastic world. The capturing of this metamorphic process allows Cherri to reflect on dams and other infrastructures as miscreations, which, though built from the earth to mediate what Lauren Berlant would term “world-sustaining relations”, exterminate entire life-forms and modes of living.