Meadowsweet Palisade is the first exhibition in a public gallery by Wales-based artistsJenő Davies andIolo Walker and marks the return of the artists to Wales. Presenting a bricolage of sculpture, sound and film, it reflects the power of rural peripheries to create spaces of renewal and transformation.

Central to the exhibition and conceived jointly by Davies and Walker, the filmPinwydd is set in Machynlleth, home to a low-flying military aircraft training route, known as the Mach Loop. The story follows Blod, a fighter jet, voiced by Welsh actor Sue Jones Davies, who is stuck in an infinite loop of destruction. Blod is shot down by Oen, an anthropomorphic anarchist lamb, in retaliation for the felling of her friend Pin, a carbon capture forest spirit. Oen then becomes the prisoner of Mr. Candy, who is the owner of Blod and the architect of planetary destruction.

Rooted in the real world of landlordism, climate co...