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Bild 1: Courtesy Chertlüdde
Bild 2–6: Stephanie Comilang, Installation view of Search for Life, ChertLüdde, Berlin, 2026. Photo by Marjorie Brunet Plaza

Opening on the occasion of Berlin Art Week, ChertLüdde presents Search for Life, a solo show by Stephanie Comilang centered around the immersive video installation Search for Life II (2025). Commissioned by TBA21, Sharjah Art Foundation and The Vega Foundation, the film explores themes of labor, diaspora, and technology through the interwoven histories of the pearl. Writer Jayne Wilkinson reads the pearls in Comilang’s film as both material currency and objects of speculation, linking global cultures and collapsing distinctions between past and future through desire, exchange, and glamour.…