Curator's Picks: Wild//Archives

Animals remember what we choose to forget. They carry migration routes in their bodies, hold trauma in their DNA, and archive environmental changes in their behaviors. For September's Curator's Picks, we're seeking works that explore how the non-human world creates, holds, and transmits its own records.

We invite artists of all mediums and disciplines to submit work that reflects on themes including:

✧ Animals as witnesses to environmental change

✧ Interspecies memory and communication

✧ Ancestry, gesture, and generational echo

✧ The politics of human-animal relationships

✧ Extinction as erasure, conservation as archiving

✧ Animal bodies as repositories of evolutionary history

✧ Domestication and wildness as states of being

✧ Anthropomorphism vs. genuine animal subjectivity

✧  Mythological and real animals as cultural archives

Think about how animals appear in your practice. What do they remember that we don't? How do they archive experience in ways humans cannot? What histories do they hold in their bodies, their territories, their behaviors?

Selected works will be featured in an Artit social media promotion and editorial piece highlighting powerful artistic voices responding to this urgent moment.

✧ Sign Up and Create Your Profile
Register on the ARTIT platform and set up your artist portfolio. Include your name, social media profiles, and a concise artist bio. This helps introduce you to our global audience and provides insight into your artistic journey.

✧ Upload Your Artworks
Add your artworks to your portfolio, including clear descriptions for each piece. Be sure to specify the title, medium, and dimensions, and share what each artwork represents to you. We encourage you to showcase additional works to give our jury a fuller understanding of your artistic vision and style.

✧ Submit Your Work to the Call
Select the pieces that best reflect your artistic identity and align with the theme of the call. Ensure your submission captures your personal connection to the subject and resonates with the spirit of the call.

All submissions will be reviewed by the Artit editorial and curatorial team.

Works will be selected based on:

✧ Relevance to the theme

✧ Originality and artistic expression

✧ Emotional and visual impact

✧ Clarity of concept

We're especially interested in works that position animals not just as subjects, but as witnesses — holders of migration routes, climate data, and interspecies relationships that challenge human-centered ways of knowing. Emerging and established artists are equally encouraged to apply.