Vault

2024

By Ella Yolande & Zara Sands

Vault is a moving image series, offering a glimpse into a speculative seed vault. The vault is viewed and inspected through a digital interface with ever shifting value metrics, demonstrating the transience and futility of human attempts to disentangle bodies, lifeforms and their value.

Each video in the series can be looped continuously.

Vault was created during the final days of a week-long residency at Ugly Duck, where Ella and I worked on integrating our practices whilst researching themes and topics including Queer Ecology, seed vaults, biobanking, body-environment binaries and the conceptualisation of weeds. 

Research & development was supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Special thanks to Ugly Duck for supporting us with residency space.