TERRENE (2022-ongoing)
Collective experience with Urban Soil
In the framework of the exhibition Soil Conversations, Galerie im Koernerpark, Berlin, DE, Jul., 2023.
Curated by Yolanda Kaddu-Mulindwa & Nisha Merit
Terrene, 2022 - ongoing, components that belong and are found in the Neukölln"s subsoil: soil, clay, sand, construction debris, plastic, stones, metals and others, in the framework of the exhibition Soil Conversations, Galerie im Koernerpark, Berlin, DE, Jul., 2023.
Local sub-soil material being collected in the Neukölln district during construction work, July 2023
TERRENE (2022-ongoing)
Collective experience with Urban Soil
TERRENE involves speculative geology and dialogical sculptural/installation work. In this practice I am interested in observing people's relation to urban anthropogenic soils in different social, cultural, historical and intercontinental contexts. The experimentr usually start with the gathering of soil from surroundings, enabling unlikely encounters among people, localities and matter. The material collected is available for the participants to freely model. They are invited to ‘encounter’ this soil, to feel it and interact with the different elements through process-oriented molding, dispensing guidelines, explanations or even spoken language in general. In some instances, the actions have been done together with children and have allowed subtitle and non-verbal discussions about territory, history, movement and sense of belonging. The actions are concluded with the rustic burning of the objects produced, mesmerically observing the vitality of matter in action, moving, melting, adapting and joining other bodies in its rhythm. When the material is cooled, there is always a surprise to observe its new configuration. Matter and participants meet again after a process of performativity and transformation. With this practice I look to embrace a dialogical formation of matter and entanglenment with urban , degraded and contaminated soils.
About the exhibition: Soil Conversations
Soil Conversations presents nine artistic propositions from South Africa and Germany, looking at the granularity of soil as material, our relationship to the ground on which we build life on and soil as a bearer of memory, identity and speculative futures.
The exhibition connects two geographical points - the Galerie im Körnerpark in Berlin and the Johannesburg Art Gallery in South Africa. Soil Conversations unfolds itself rhizomatically through the sharing of curatorial and artistic processes on our project website, the two physical exhibitions and through textual engagements of writers from both cities.
Soil Conversations is an exhibition that explores the relationship between humans and the environment, both in the digital and analogue spheres. The exhibition presents soil as a space of meaning, identity, and history, and questions the concept of linearity in favour of interstitial spaces. It looks at soil as a planetary boundary, a resource that has been
exploited, a territory that forms geography, and a mixture of nurture, trauma, and cycles of life.
The exhibition also explores the relationship between the analogue and digital, considering the digital as a space of pixelated dialectics where one can exist beyond the boundaries and borders defined by history and politics, but still not completely free from them. But the body remembers — even in the transition between particles and pixels, we carry the histories
inscribed into our corporealities into this digital terra nullius. Topics such as land, history, spirituality, and the body are integral to the artworks in Soil Conversations. The exhibition aims to engage with the speculative and to explore the plurality of the past and future scenarios, as a relationship between humans and the world, and as a defining position of the present moment.
Curated by Yolanda Kaddu-Mulindwa & Nisha Merit iN cooperation with Bubblegum Club
more:
https://galerie-im-koernerpark.de/en/exhibitions/soil-conversations
https://www.instagram.com/soil_conversations_project/
https://iqoqo.org/soil-conversations/
TERRENE (2022-ongoing)
Collective experience with Urban Soil
In the framework of the exhibition Soil Conversations, Galerie im Koernerpark, Berlin, DE, Jul., 2023.
Curated by Yolanda Kaddu-Mulindwa & Nisha Merit
Terrene, 2022 - ongoing, components that belong and are found in the Neukölln"s subsoil: soil, clay, sand, construction debris, plastic, stones, metals and others, in the framework of the exhibition Soil Conversations, Galerie im Koernerpark, Berlin, DE, Jul., 2023.
Local sub-soil material being collected in the Neukölln district during construction work, July 2023
TERRENE (2022-ongoing)
Collective experience with Urban Soil
TERRENE involves speculative geology and dialogical sculptural/installation work. In this practice I am interested in observing people's relation to urban anthropogenic soils in different social, cultural, historical and intercontinental contexts. The experimentr usually start with the gathering of soil from surroundings, enabling unlikely encounters among people, localities and matter. The material collected is available for the participants to freely model. They are invited to ‘encounter’ this soil, to feel it and interact with the different elements through process-oriented molding, dispensing guidelines, explanations or even spoken language in general. In some instances, the actions have been done together with children and have allowed subtitle and non-verbal discussions about territory, history, movement and sense of belonging. The actions are concluded with the rustic burning of the objects produced, mesmerically observing the vitality of matter in action, moving, melting, adapting and joining other bodies in its rhythm. When the material is cooled, there is always a surprise to observe its new configuration. Matter and participants meet again after a process of performativity and transformation. With this practice I look to embrace a dialogical formation of matter and entanglenment with urban , degraded and contaminated soils.
About the exhibition: Soil Conversations
Soil Conversations presents nine artistic propositions from South Africa and Germany, looking at the granularity of soil as material, our relationship to the ground on which we build life on and soil as a bearer of memory, identity and speculative futures.
The exhibition connects two geographical points - the Galerie im Körnerpark in Berlin and the Johannesburg Art Gallery in South Africa. Soil Conversations unfolds itself rhizomatically through the sharing of curatorial and artistic processes on our project website, the two physical exhibitions and through textual engagements of writers from both cities.
Soil Conversations is an exhibition that explores the relationship between humans and the environment, both in the digital and analogue spheres. The exhibition presents soil as a space of meaning, identity, and history, and questions the concept of linearity in favour of interstitial spaces. It looks at soil as a planetary boundary, a resource that has been
exploited, a territory that forms geography, and a mixture of nurture, trauma, and cycles of life.
The exhibition also explores the relationship between the analogue and digital, considering the digital as a space of pixelated dialectics where one can exist beyond the boundaries and borders defined by history and politics, but still not completely free from them. But the body remembers — even in the transition between particles and pixels, we carry the histories
inscribed into our corporealities into this digital terra nullius. Topics such as land, history, spirituality, and the body are integral to the artworks in Soil Conversations. The exhibition aims to engage with the speculative and to explore the plurality of the past and future scenarios, as a relationship between humans and the world, and as a defining position of the present moment.
Curated by Yolanda Kaddu-Mulindwa & Nisha Merit iN cooperation with Bubblegum Club
more:
https://galerie-im-koernerpark.de/en/exhibitions/soil-conversations
https://www.instagram.com/soil_conversations_project/
https://iqoqo.org/soil-conversations/