Taloi Havini’s 'Habitat' (2017) engages the sociopolitical history of Bougainville, an autonomous region within Papua New Guinea and Havini’s birthplace. The three-channel film follows Agata, an elderly Indigenous matriarch and landowner, as she travels from the tailings to the pit of the Panguna copper mine, the epicentre of the Bougainville Civil War in 1988-98, today recognised as one of the deadliest conflicts in Oceania since World War II.

Leading Thai contemporary artist Mit Jai Inn’s first US solo exhibition is on view at Silverlens New York through 6 January 2024. The vibrant, sensate and interactive exhibition mimics the artist’s studio environment in Chiang Mai where distinctively colored and shaped canvases hang from beams, overlay floors and tables, entangle and unfurl from walls, coil in standing spirals, and so on. In this unrestricted scope, Mit’s vibrating present expands relations through and beyond our conditioned reaches.

All artists are in one way or another naturalists, nature being muse to their creative demiurge, but Javier, further inspired like most artists by the growing environmental movement, has established her own studio and farm in Cuenca, Batangas, where she does organic farming while incorporating her investigations into the flora and fauna around her in her artmaking, via botanical printing and mordanting.