These ideas have fused into the three-floor exhibition, which gives a series of independent galleries a space within the museum to muse on mythologies, the near future and ideas of interaction, identity and utopia. From Sungsil Ryu’s installations on artificial paradise to space illi’s Swimming QFWFQ*, which gathers the work of women artists deconstructing societal definitions of “natural”, the gallery’s installations are as immersive and conceptual as they are mesmerising to watch.

To round off the project, Salah also asked artists Meriam Bennani, Olivia Erlanger, Cecile B. Evans, Kang Seung Lee and Martine Syms to take inspiration from fantastic mythologies. The results are playful but politically resonant, interrogating notions of migration, borders and even what it means to be human. Erlanger seized the opportunity to create a laundromat filled with mermaid tales, whereas Lee created a wallpaper installation dedicated to the personal histories of South Korea’s queer communities, all too often forgotten within mainstream media.

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