This issue of Rosa Mercedes offers a reflection on the exhibition “We Show What We (Don’t) Know – Images as Research” within the framework of the Transcultural Academy “Futures/Futurities” at the Japanische Palais of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden 2023.

What images does research in the museum produce? How can images themselves be instruments of research? These questions were pursued by a seminar of the “expanded cinema” class at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig in cooperation with the Dresden State Art Collections (SKD) over the course of a year. Based on “Labour in a Single Shot” by Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann, a multitude of artistic works emerged through close exchange with scientists and researchers from the SKD that were on display at the Japanische Palais in Dresden from October 12th through November 23rd, 2023.

Rosa Mercedes 09 was editorially coordinated by Alma Weizman.