Best Before: explores the challenges of preservation – of data, artworks, and life itself. It brings together a series of sculptures whose vertical forms are inspired by geological core samples. Containing mercury, these ambivalent structures function both as measuring instruments and archival devices, where ecological tensions and symbolic narratives intersect. The works engage in dialogue with freely reworked archival images: from cinnabar mining to Cézanne’s pigments, from industrial excess to the poisoned waters of Minamata. Through this layered temporal and narrative mesh, the exhibition questions our ability to coexist with the toxic residues of the contemporary world – and implicitly raises the question of our own ecological expiration date.