Throughout Fall 2026 and Spring 2027, UC Berkeley will present the exhibition, Kõmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here, through a series of installations across the University's campus. Situated at the centre of the Earth’s largest ocean and surrounded by vast expanses of water, the 29 coral atolls of the Marshall Islands have been called home for more than three thousand years, by canoe-voyaging people who could navigate solely by sensing the rhythms of waves with their bodies and observing the positions of the stars. Yet, due to rising sea levels and the lasting legacy of U.S. nuclear testing, that precious 3000 year old pacific culture can now rightly be called the most existentially-threatened place on the planet. Kõmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here invites us all to confront climate colonialism, imagine alternative futures, and recognize our shared responsibility for planetary care.
Several works from Meghann Riepenhoff's Adaptive Radiation series will be on display. "These prints hold radioactive sand in them, so they are containers memorialising what has happened in a space, what has happened over time," says Meghann.
Furthur exhibition programming can be found through the link below.
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