For the Grain — An Ecology of Practice
Digital print on silk chiffon, 2023
150 x 175 cm, each flag: 120 x 47 cm
Three flags about heritage seeds* and practices - freely inspired by Isabelle Stengers words and her note "an ecology of practices**" in 2003.
This work was made especially for the exhibition "At the Beginning there was a Seed, a Bird and a Human in the World" at Kiltsi Castle in Estonia. It is composed by a series of cereal grains drawing originally created for the project Against the Grain at EKKM in 2022.
The installation consists of 3 flags representing so-called peasant cereal seeds: peas from Hiiumaa Island (Estonia), oats from Klaipeda (Lithuania) and wheat from Châteaudouble (France).
By extension, this work addresses the importance of knowing the seeds origins sown in the fields and to understand the global stakes that are played in the legislative battle for the authorization to use, spread and safeguard them.
*Heritage or so-called peasant‘ seeds are not subject to copyright and are reproducible, but their use is often complicated by legislation and agribusiness lobbies.
** full article available here.
Exhibition view, Kiltsi loss, Estonia, 2023
Text excerpt:
"an ecology of practices — for thinking through what is happening, and a tool is never neutral. A tool can be passed from hand to hand, but each time the gesture of taking it in hand will be a particular one.
The ecology of practice is a non-neutral tool as it entails the decision never to accept Capitalist destruction as freeing the ground for any- thing but Capitalism itself. (...)The point is to resist any concept, any prospect, which would make those destructions the condition for something more important."
For the Grain — an Ecology of Practice, detail, 2023
For the Grain — An Ecology of Practice
Digital print on silk chiffon, 2023
150 x 175 cm, each flag: 120 x 47 cm
Three flags about heritage seeds* and practices - freely inspired by Isabelle Stengers words and her note "an ecology of practices**" in 2003.
This work was made especially for the exhibition "At the Beginning there was a Seed, a Bird and a Human in the World" at Kiltsi Castle in Estonia. It is composed by a series of cereal grains drawing originally created for the project Against the Grain at EKKM in 2022.
The installation consists of 3 flags representing so-called peasant cereal seeds: peas from Hiiumaa Island (Estonia), oats from Klaipeda (Lithuania) and wheat from Châteaudouble (France).
By extension, this work addresses the importance of knowing the seeds origins sown in the fields and to understand the global stakes that are played in the legislative battle for the authorization to use, spread and safeguard them.
*Heritage or so-called peasant‘ seeds are not subject to copyright and are reproducible, but their use is often complicated by legislation and agribusiness lobbies.
** full article available here.
Exhibition view, Kiltsi loss, Estonia, 2023
Text excerpt:
"an ecology of practices — for thinking through what is happening, and a tool is never neutral. A tool can be passed from hand to hand, but each time the gesture of taking it in hand will be a particular one.
The ecology of practice is a non-neutral tool as it entails the decision never to accept Capitalist destruction as freeing the ground for any- thing but Capitalism itself. (...)The point is to resist any concept, any prospect, which would make those destructions the condition for something more important."