“Try as we might to rid ourselves of it, in the end everything brings us back to the body”, wrote the postcolonial theoretician Achille Mbembe in 2020. That same year, Ehsan Hemat began working on his duet with an 18-kilogram copper plate. The polished, inscrutable surface, too, hides the capacities and hardships of the human body, its exploitation – as well as the exploitation of the Earth: copper is won in the depths of open-pit mines in Africa, South and North America. Instead of trying to rid himself of the body, the Iranian-Belgian artist aims to utilise the body to set these hidden stories free: between the copper and himself, he expertly directs light, voice and sound, and stages a stunning vision of human-nonhuman equality.

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