This exhibition is part of the inquiry The Against Nature Journal, initiated in 2014 as commission by the NGO Legal Agenda and arts organisation Ashkal Alwan in Beirut.

After the initial research carried out in Beirut, that culminated in the symposium at Ashkal Alwan, The Against Nature Journal toured in the shape of an exhibition.

The exhibition presented a series of lithographic works by Joscelyn Gardner, a video recording judge Mounir Suleiman reading his seminal judgement from 2007 and a series of texts by scholars and artists, reflecting on issues related to the concept of ‘Nature’.

In 2017, the exhibition travelled as part of  Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as a medium Contour Biennale curated by Natasha Ginwala 11 March until 21 May 2017, Los multinaturalistas Medellín’s Museo de Arte Moderno (Colombia) curated by Natalia Valencia Arango 5 April until 3 July 2017 and Cosmopolis #1. Collective Intelligence curated by Kathryn Weir and Ilaria Conti 18 October to 18 december 2017 .

For each occurence, Council also participated in a talk. As part of the Public Programme for Contour Biennale 8, at Medellín’s Museo de Arte Moderno, and at Cosmopolis with a roundtable organised by Council with Aimar Arriola, Grégory Castéra, Nikita Dhawan, Arvind Narrain and Grant Watson.