Sammy Baloji mixes colonial-era promotional reels about farming and mining in his native Congo with contemporary footage of similar practices. The film Aequare. The Future that never was (2023), shown during the Biennale, will also be on view at the gallery from this September. By shedding light on the world’s second largest rainforest around Yangambi, the artist interrogates the legacy of colonialism and the ecological destruction it has caused. By showing this specific territory around the equatorial forest and the Yangambi Science Center (INEAC), Sammy Baloji also reveals a dissonance with this environment which results from “the acclimatization, scientific control and territorial appropriation of Africa by Western colonists", and suggests the vital nature of this region in reducing humanity’s carbon emissions.