Immersive, speculative sound-work and sculptural installation to tour Wales in 2026

Heaven in the Ground is a speculative sound-work and installation that reimagines the underground as a sacred space of regeneration, guided by insects, mycelium, and the Earth’s bedrock made by Wales artists DARCH. Originally debuting at Liverpool Biennial 2025, it evolves across three Welsh venues; g39, Cardiff, Mostyn, Llandudno and Mission Gallery, Swansea in 2026, with additional newly commissioned works for each venue, bespoke workshops and audio described tours. 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. The work celebrates the underground as a site of memory, rebirth, and collective history, fostering a vision of interconnection and honouring pre-colonial relationships to land, our human and more than human ancestors. It unravels perceptions of heaven and hell; challenging the colonial degen