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DARCH, Heaven in the Ground, 2025. Liverpool Biennial 2025 at FACT.

DARCH is the collaborative practice of artists Umulkhayr Mohamed and Radha Patel. Their work seeks creative ways to articulate care-centred practices for people of colour, with an approach grounded in solidarity and liberation.

Heaven in the Ground is a soundwork and installation which tells the story of the earth underneath our feet, and the bedrock as a great connector which holds all histories (prehistoric, colonial, personal) as well as possible futures. The work explores concepts of the afterlife, the relationship between life and death, and the need to acknowledge the labour of other species. DARCH ask us to consider the soil, and the bedrock that holds it up, as a space that is shared equally amongst all species – plants, animals and our ancestors, both human and more-than-human – and one through which we can collectively bring into being a gentler and more compassionate world. For Mostyn’s summer season, DARCH are developing a new iteration of Heaven in the Ground , conceived as a site-specific project for Wales.