Inventory for Survival

How and where does hope materialise, or even become commodified? Amid looming crises and the dire prospect of permanent alterations to everyday life and cohabitation, people begin to accumulate stuff. Many have lost trust in any kind of institutional framework; driven by fear, they find hope in self-actuation. In a capitalist world, alongside DIY survivalists and prepper movements across the political spectrum, a market has sprouted for food kits and survival gear where hope can be bought pre-packaged.

Inventory for Survival presents a collection of such items and asks: will any of this prove useful, and is this imagined future one in which we want to survive?