This work is the outcome of an artist residency at the Asser Institute, a research centre for international and European law in The Hague. Over the period of four months I worked alongside two other artists in residency, being in close contact with researchers at the Asser Institute.

Case No. ARB/24/44 is an international arbitration between the gas company ExxonMobil and the Netherlands which was filed in October 2024, concerning the gas fields in Groningen. The work searches for the visual traces of this legal dispute and its devastating local preconditions. It not only speaks about the case study of the Groningen gas field, but also about the designed inaccessibility of such arbitrations and a world where states are often complicit with companies when the revenues are high enough, until the people pressure them to reconsider. By borrowing the language of activism, I tackle the abstract postcolonial frameworks of Investor-State-Dispute Settlement and ask the audience: Where is the public interest?

research at the Asser Institute: Stephanie Triefus and Rafaella Monesi
fellow artists in residency: Daria Radu and Anastasia Troshkova
design publication: Jasper Naus
construction of the installation: Matej Filipič
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