Autobio

In her performative project  Autobio, artist Kenza Lansari explores Heyvaert Street in the Brussels district of Anderlecht, a hub for so-called end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) that have been discarded because they no longer meet European emissions standards. From here, they are shipped to North Africa and given a “second life”. This movement reveals a network of post-colonial mobility whereby ecological responsibility is outsourced and making invisible becomes a standard. 

From a queer-feminist perspective, Autobio focuses on the entanglement of body, space, technology and privilege. The work combines documentary practice with biographical self-assessment: What role does one's own environmental privilege play in the global structure of ecological exploitation? How does structural responsibility affect individual scope for action? Autobio becomes a personal quest for traces of individual entanglement in issues of structural climate justice while casting a critical light on Western notions of sustainability.