Beyond the Commons: From Stardust to Everlasting Sun is an exhibition by artists Eve Tagny and mosquito girlfriend (Gabi Dao & Lou Lou Sainsbury) that repositions the social practice of the commons. This aspirational framework envisions natural resources—land, water, and biodiversity—as stewarded communally rather than subjected to privatization. Here, commoning is reimagined as a path to emancipation. Bringing together installations, ceramics, photographs, and newly commissioned videos, the exhibition examines instances of commoning where mutual aid, reciprocity, and relationality emerge as everlasting suns. Their works unravel the entanglements between humans, nature, and colonial imperatives to control both, challenging the asymmetrical power structures that determine their worth.

Tracing the erosion of communal sustenance through land privatization, we sought the vestiges of the commons—remnants of subsistence rights. Reflecting on these histories, Tagny and mosquito girlfriend turn to overlapping realms of the personal and the political, charting constellations of commoning from the familial home to ecological sanctuaries. An intimate film depicts Tagny in her politician grandfather’s home, a structure shaped by the aftermath of Cameroon’s independence from France. In this space, colonial histories converge with present-day economies of extraction. Meanwhile, mosquito girlfriend’s eco-vampiric film Resurrect Me as a Parasite (2025) foregrounds queer ecologies in an age of extinction. Together, their works illuminate a vast expanse of shared histories that shape intersectional solidarities.