Luzia Cruz, Leo Elia,

Mark Morris and Gale Raj

Better Promises To Come, I Promise

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Exhibition from November 15th – December 13th, 2025.​​​​​​

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Intertwining storytelling, meanings of truth, and the elusive promises of progress, “Better Promises to Come, I Promise” is a material survey on movement, technology, and post-human ambition shaping our understanding of the world. Each reconfigures the symbolism of surveillance, data extraction, and spectacle offering critical counter-narratives. From scarecrows as monuments of protection to agricultural drones codependent on warfare technology; and from an owl birdhouse surveilling plantations to (un)hidden research ‘findings’ on electronics factories in Malaysia. The group show stagestensions between comfort and control through hyper-regulated environments engaging with aesthetics and logics of control systems.

 

 

Luzia Cruz (b.1997, Lisbon) is a Hamburg based artist whose practice is rooted in research and unfolds across variable mediums. By imagining rooms that manipulate the body through instincts of fear and guilt, Cruz delves into complex negotiations of memory and identity. Her practice explores the politics of movement — tourism, migration, citizenship, and land ownership — while tracing the histories of intertwined technologies.

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Leo Elia (b.1998, Berlin) is a Copenhagen based artist working across sculpture, video, and installation. Drawing on the legacies of post-socialist East Germany and consumer culture, Elia constructs narrative-driven work cycles that explore the collapse of timelines, the staging of ideology, and the aesthetics of belief. Rooted in personal and inherited histories, Elia’s practice engages with the psychological afterlives of the GDR, filtered through a landscape shaped by media, marketing, and entertainment culture.

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Mark Morris (b. 1992, Teluk Intan) is an artist based in Hamburg but is still thematically rotted in Malaysia. His practice currently revolves around the reverberations of the palm-oil industry and its side effects. He uses a multidisciplinary approach, utilizing various mediums such as sculpture, photography, and installations.

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Gale Raj (b.1976, Petaling Jaya) is Professor of Politics at Bard College Berlin. Raj researches global production networks of the electronics industry and outsourced manufacturing in Asia, especially Malaysia – to understand power relationships across different actors and institutions which results in labor exploitation and harmful working conditions in outsourced factories. Raj is exploring artistic practice revolving around her research and research methods using various mediums.