From submerged atolls to failed utopias, extinct languages to tax havens, long lists of lost entities are announced within an echo-free chamber and transmitted to cell-phone towers disguised as trees around the city.

They accumulate in the gallery in printed form, amassing as a melancholy archive of loss. Post hoc reflects on our constant demand for growth and progress, highlighting the unrelenting new losses and extinctions occurring as our present moment becomes the past. For some, this data is all that remains.

Dane Mitchell acknowledges the support of Creative New Zealand and NZ at Venice Patrons and Partners in the realisation of Post Hoc at the 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale), 2019.