A film projector screens 16mm footage of a rubber tree plantation in the Ecuadorian Amazon region. Latex harvesting vessels take the shape of a hand, a ghostlike presence of the historical relationships of exploitation in the region. Alongside the moving image, photographs and a glove question the key values underlying human exploitation of nature and reflect on the impact of the technification of work. Drawing on rubber harvesting, which lies at the origin of European colonization, as a guiding thread, the work underscores the colossal gap between a specific strand of collective imagination that relates the Amazon region to the idea of idyllic nature and the systematic practice of seizing this territory for political and economic purposes.
