Across cultures and landscapes, the swamp spells crisis. It is bad nature that undoes the elementary order by mixing up soil, air, and water into a bottomless formlessness resistant to being mapped and depicted. Home only to vermin, nothing can be built or cultivated in its chaotic fecundity, which even threatens to make a mess … Continue reading Photo reportage from the exhibition ‘Partially Swamped Institution’ by Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonasat at the National Gallery of Art