‘Dreams and memories dazzle through the flickering of fireflies’ by Maya-Kaqchikel visual artist and poet Edgar Calel, is an exploration of dreams and their agency in everyday life. Each morning, within the artist’s multi-generational family home in Comalapa, Guatemala, dreams are shared amongst family members. Calel documents these dreams’ images and stories by etching them onto the smoke-embedded walls of the house. Transposed onto Pina’s pages, these drawings are interspersed with poetry and Polaroid photographs of the details of daily life that, in turn, inform the artist’s dreams.

A registry of the most fragile of images, the exhibition is an invitation to use our sense of touch to see the fleetingness and potency of dreams, poetry and intimacy.

Calel’s exhibition is accompanied by a conversation with curator Lisette Lagnado, and ‘A Gathering of Seeds’, a new short story by Portia Subran.

‘A Counter-Archive of the Nama and Ovaherero Genocide’, an exhibition by the London-based research agency Forensic Architecture, displays an investigation into the early 20th-century genocide committed by German colonial powers against the Ovaherero and Nama peoples in today’s Namibia. Drawing on years of archival research and spatial analysis, the project traces the lasting impact of violence in three parts, from the ideological roots of racialised imperialism, to the invention of the concentration camp, and the ongoing environmental dispossession affecting the communities a century later.

'A Counter-Archive' is part of a multi-year constellation of exhibitions that trace German colonial infrastructure through the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis to present-day manifestations of genocidal policy – namely in Palestine.

Their exhibition in Pina is accompanied by a conversation between Agata Nguyen Chuong and Eyal Weizman from FA, writer and scholar Zoé Samudzi and researcher and writer Irmgard Emmelhainz; plus ‘Breaking Even’, a new short story by Rémy Ngamije.