https://gracegloriadenis.com Grace Gloria Denis Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:35:05 +0000 https://gracegloriadenis.com en https://gracegloriadenis.com/Splash-Page Sat, 16 Apr 2022 16:40:01 +0000 Grace Gloria Denis https://gracegloriadenis.com/Splash-Page GRACE GLORIA DENIS ENTER https://gracegloriadenis.com/Home Thu, 24 Mar 2022 19:05:57 +0000 Grace Gloria Denis https://gracegloriadenis.com/Home https://gracegloriadenis.com/In-From-and-With Sun, 05 Jun 2022 12:52:44 +0000 Grace Gloria Denis https://gracegloriadenis.com/In-From-and-With <img width="300" height="37" width_o="300" height_o="37" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd7a594030d152860f446c00afd78200b10d6d0cc8452ecf668a98d8c599bf70/SECONDO-TESTO-SVG.svg" data-mid="144564463" border="0" data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/dd7a594030d152860f446c00afd78200b10d6d0cc8452ecf668a98d8c599bf70/SECONDO-TESTO-SVG.svg" /> <img width="885" height="1122" width_o="885" height_o="1122" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b6498e01ba1305355f5004978e943f2d6bb394ed4520dad14c94b1d71936cb33/In--From--and-With-Portada.png" data-mid="156137560" border="0" data-rotation="-7.5" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/885/i/b6498e01ba1305355f5004978e943f2d6bb394ed4520dad14c94b1d71936cb33/In--From--and-With-Portada.png" /> First edition published May 2021Second edition published August 2022 Edited by Grace Denis In, From, and With: Exploring Collaborative Survival is a collectively constructed lexicon that collates a series of terms selected by twenty-four contributors, ranging from botanists to artists to agricultural producers and more. The interactive book, including edible and non-edible recipes, explores the notion of collaborative survival through a series of sensorial pedagogies, implementing the body as a fulcrum for digesting terminology. In, From, and With romances the possibility of reading and doing as a means of metabolizing, braiding together practice and pedagogy through an intimate inquiry of contemporary consumption. . Preface by Anna Tsing. Contributions from Adwoa Addae, Angela Chan, Asha Mines, Agustine Zegers, Catriona Sandilands, David Horvitz, Eden Batki, Fernando García-Dory, Jessie French, Jo Vávra, Justine Parkin, Institute for Interspecies Arts and Relations, In Co Lab, Lichen Kelp, Loren Kronemyer, Noon Tran, Nora Slade, Oola, Sanctuary Slimane, Sara Graorac, Sarita Dougherty, Sean Roy Parker, Sophia Winitsky, Susanna Battin, Terrapolis Collective, and Tarangini Saxena. Designed by Gal Sherizly. Printed by Offset Santiago. First edition via Circadian Books (sold out) Second edition available for purchase here Stockists: -&nbsp;Casa Bosques in Mexico City, Mexico → -&nbsp;Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) in Los Angeles, US (view only) → -&nbsp;Librairie La Dispersion in Geneva, Switzerland → -&nbsp;Librairie Météores in Bruxelles, Belgium → -&nbsp;Zabriskie: Bookstore for Culture and Nature in Berlin, Germany → - Home of Sustainable Things in London, UK → -&nbsp;Uro in Melbourne, Australia&nbsp; → THE ETYMOLOGY OF CONSUME PROVIDES A LENS TO VIEW AN EXPANDED CONSTELLATION OF ITS MEANING. THE ORIGINS OF THE WORD ARE BORN FROM THE LATIN, SUMO, MEANING “TO TAKE.” ITS SUBSEQUENT DEFINITIONS INCLUDE THE LATE 14TH-CENTURY “TO DESTROY BY SEPARATING INTO PARTS WHICH CANNOT BE REUNITED, AS BY BURNING OR EATING.”&nbsp; <img width="2292" height="1462" width_o="2292" height_o="1462" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc82da0819350ef473657bbad6b37c1bb0ea5152eece682e70d1ab635edd2562/Bioplastic-by-Jessie-French-Rendering-by-Nic-Hamilton.png" data-mid="144564460" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc82da0819350ef473657bbad6b37c1bb0ea5152eece682e70d1ab635edd2562/Bioplastic-by-Jessie-French-Rendering-by-Nic-Hamilton.png" /> Bioplastic by Jessie French <img width="1700" height="1700" width_o="1700" height_o="1700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b783700972c6d806b325a24ceacaa20d0ceb579b69e1c3c70b628facc0080cc/Assemblage-by-Angela-Chan.jpg" data-mid="157404005" border="0" alt="Assemblage by Angela Chan" data-caption="Assemblage by Angela 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Los Angeles, California January 14th to February 4th, 2022 Life in Covid: Cara B Curated by Roxane Alaime Studio Weil. Mallorca, Spain September 4th to October 31st, 2021 Quarantine Diary is a series of images fabricated during a mandated two-week quarantine, prior to the commencement of a residency predicated upon botanical research. The quotidien delivery of samples of organic matter from the external realm served as a modality to encounter the exterior from the interior. These daily specimens introduced myriad leaves, flowers, soil, and sand to the space of confinement, weaving together a dynamic elemental tapestry. This abstracted study of the landscape served as both an ephemeral diary and an implement to measure the passage of time. Quarantine Diary serves as an observation on temporality through the intrinsically entropic nature of organic material. The series is still actively documented and exhibited. QUARANTINE DIARY SERVES AS AN OBSERVATION ON TEMPORALITY THROUGH THE INTRINSICALLY ENTROPIC NATURE OF ORGANIC MATERIAL. 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https://gracegloriadenis.com/Lyon-Biennale-Veduta Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:23:00 +0000 Grace Gloria Denis https://gracegloriadenis.com/Lyon-Biennale-Veduta <img width="5642" height="374" width_o="5642" height_o="374" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5c9e81b6bb2c11bfdf1becf69893245effc57d5b5694af765ab5ebe841949cc/Untitled-1.png" data-mid="156822523" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5c9e81b6bb2c11bfdf1becf69893245effc57d5b5694af765ab5ebe841949cc/Untitled-1.png" /> <img width="2281" height="3421" width_o="2281" height_o="3421" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e332552be0d7028c8ae6a5591f5a0b8f37f7880ca0386d07dfe84105eb579e85/jam2.png" data-mid="156823714" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e332552be0d7028c8ae6a5591f5a0b8f37f7880ca0386d07dfe84105eb579e85/jam2.png" /> DETAILS: What to Keep? Preservations in Pierre-Bénite&nbsp;→ Curated by Adeline Lepine La Biennale de Lyon et Veduta → Pierre-Bénite, France June 27th to July 3rd, 2022 2021 Grace Denis' working materials are sound, image, and the edible. She gathers these elements in the form of interactive installations or hospitable situations that are rooted in agricultural research, an exploration of the dynamics of biodiversity, or the experimentation of a specific cultivation process that can itself be linked to a lunar cycle. Attached to collaboration and participatory action research, her artistic proposals are conceived primarily with farmers and subsequently invites other know-how, particularly those of the kitchen. The meal or the common consumption of edible matter materials become considered as poetic tools of transmission and mediation that invite us to reconsider the way in which "we have desensitized our relationship to consumption" while (re)becoming aware of our relationship to the living. In Pierre-Bénite, Grace Denis has been invited by Veduta to work on the history of the local soil and the recent establishment of an Urban Farm following the demolition of a housing block in the Arcades sector, and in a desire to link the city center and the Haute Roche district. After having investigated the history of local agriculture and identified typical species of Pierre-Bénite, such as a native melon and Batavia, she will accompany volunteer chefs to join her to exchange around the notion of preservation, a starting point allowing a collective contemplation of both the perpetuation of a history and the protection of species, and more broadly of local ecology. The whole will take the form of a convivial research-action inviting other inhabitants to gather around this celebration of local fertility while opening the space for a collective reflection about our contemporary lifestyles and our ways of consuming.&nbsp; Text by Adeline Lepine, Veduta/La Biennale de Lyon As part of the 16th Biennale de Lyon, Grace Denis was invited to facilitate a series of interventions by Veduta, the biennale’s program galvanizing links between art, the city, and the people through exchanges in fifteen territories across the Lyon metropolitan and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The initial research commenced with an investigation on Le Jardin de Maguy, an urban farm in the Arcades sector of Pierre-Bénite, constructed in 2020, cultivating produce for the canteen of local elementary schools. Research of the predominant agricultural histories of the locale, which had been historically supplying metropolitan Lyon with fresh produce, revealed two endemic species tethered to the town’s history; the first being Batavia, a large leafy lettuce, and the second a namesake orange melon. However, an on-site investigation of the prevalence of the two species, either in markets or gardens, revealed that they had likely been rendered extinct, perhaps due to a lack of continuous cultivation. What to Keep? Preservations in Pierre-Bénite is an examination of local terroir, ruminating upon urbanization and the subsequent threats it posits to the extinction of local species. What happens when an endemic species goes extinct, and what does this loss signify? How to cope with the loss imbued into increasing urbanization of that which was previously a rich rural and agricultural context? A visit to local archives of the city provided aerial views of the disintegration of land used for cultivation practices, conveying an increasing disappearance of arable land, replaced by industrial and urban structures, rupturing the perpetuation of local agricultural production. What else, tangible or not, falls prey to extinction in the urbanization of the rural? In May 2022, a report was released exposing notable toxicity in the soils from fluoropolymers, also known as forever chemicals for their inability to naturally break down and instead accumulate in humans and environments over time, likely seeping from a neighboring factory. The report ignited a halt in the consumption of all produce on-site, generating a haunting armature of potential abundance. Upon an initial site visit, the dystopic vision of a terrain saturated with ripe vegetables unavailable for consumption, and rather continuously watered for testing, prompted reflections on loss tethered to realities of chemical waste, with the garden in a juxtaposed stagnancy. Taking preservation as a metaphor, the workshops looked at the act of preserving as a catalyst to discuss resilience, collectively working in a public kitchen of the town to create a preserve made out of melon, in homage to the lost species. The workshops took the form of convivial research-action, inviting inhabitants to reflect on consumption, culminating in a moment of cooking together for the finissage of an exhibition curated by Veduta and a local school, with a collectively constructed menu made with children of the town. Special thanks to Adeline Lepine and Fanny Ventre of Veduta, Benoît Martin of La Ville de Pierre-Bénite, and Bruno Tachon of Les Archives de Pierre-Bénite, and all participants of the workshops. WHAT TO KEEP? PRESERVATIONS IN PIERRE-BÉNITE IS AN EXAMINATION OF LOCAL TERROIR, RUMINATING UPON URBANIZATION AND THE SUBSEQUENT THREATS IT POSITS TO THE EXTINCTION OF LOCAL SPECIES. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN ENDEMIC SPECIES GOES EXTINCT, AND WHAT DOES THIS LOSS SIGNIFY? <img width="3302" height="2201" width_o="3302" height_o="2201" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/476c7f5084ec583fc3bae75b919ac1c9f58277c5115da9510471621e5c8a7991/000026.jpg" data-mid="156822608" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/476c7f5084ec583fc3bae75b919ac1c9f58277c5115da9510471621e5c8a7991/000026.jpg" /> <img width="2201" height="3302" width_o="2201" height_o="3302" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ed2a8f7c08fff1ef09b4a45386337565f94748e57c11eaa46b74b17dcaf76a2/000018.jpg" data-mid="156822607" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2ed2a8f7c08fff1ef09b4a45386337565f94748e57c11eaa46b74b17dcaf76a2/000018.jpg" /> <img width="3364" height="2243" width_o="3364" height_o="2243" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39708037c9a2206996bc1d0dc6e75ce6cf688d8c95e655990260a1b7e6c538fa/000017.jpg" data-mid="156822604" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/39708037c9a2206996bc1d0dc6e75ce6cf688d8c95e655990260a1b7e6c538fa/000017.jpg" /> <img width="2281" height="3421" width_o="2281" height_o="3421" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2946796bf3264a31e13ac76d52e6e902c964df0b5bb530a458c663df3dc30688/000028.jpg" data-mid="156822609" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2946796bf3264a31e13ac76d52e6e902c964df0b5bb530a458c663df3dc30688/000028.jpg" /> <img width="2214" height="3321" width_o="2214" height_o="3321" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e733e5d51c51742f7103796e289ab573f07831e8177a4a122687f1c2029639b4/000033.jpg" data-mid="156822610" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e733e5d51c51742f7103796e289ab573f07831e8177a4a122687f1c2029639b4/000033.jpg" /> https://gracegloriadenis.com/Mobile-Soils Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:35:05 +0000 Grace Gloria Denis https://gracegloriadenis.com/Mobile-Soils <img width="7794" height="998" width_o="7794" height_o="998" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d5a2c93340dfff8c1dee85139a16e9a69272fa82d516f8d7147a6811f47ce5f/mobilesoils.png" data-mid="156823023" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d5a2c93340dfff8c1dee85139a16e9a69272fa82d516f8d7147a6811f47ce5f/mobilesoils.png" /> <img width="1170" height="1170" width_o="1170" height_o="1170" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d8cac4d4e23b45bba38ec3803031701083aca44f5d035c10cbca681dfa1a1be/2ricepaper.png" data-mid="157403792" border="0" data-rotation="22.5" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d8cac4d4e23b45bba38ec3803031701083aca44f5d035c10cbca681dfa1a1be/2ricepaper.png" /> Mobile Soils: Overground Sustainable Agroecosystems Greenhouse Lab, ETH Zurich Zurich, Switzerland September 24th, 2022 Mobile Soils is a series of three dinners in collaboration between the Sustainable Agroecosystems Greenhouse Lab of ETH Zurich, Manon Briod and Mathieu Pochon, arvae, foodculture days, and TETI Group. As part of a series of thematic exchanges between science, art, and agronomy, the dinners unfolded the three chapters of the publication Mobile soils by TETI Press. This collection of essays reflects on the mobile ground beneath our feet, questioning the soil as both material and narrative in our interconnected territories,&nbsp; investigating the mineral and rooted discussions of the underground, looking at the layered and planted conversations on the ground, and finally exploring the circulation patterns across the overground. The first dinner, examined the chapter “underground” orchestrated by TETI group with scenographies devised by Manon Briod and Mathieu Pochon, while Arvae unfolded the second chapter “ground” in collaboration with Mariana Murcia. As part of a series of thematic exchanges between science, art, and agronomy, the dinner unfolded the three chapters of the publication “Mobile Soils” by TETI Press: investigating the mineral and rooted discussions of the underground, looking tat the layered and planted conversations on the ground, and finally exploring the circulating patterns across the overground. Mobile Soils is a collection of essays reflecting on the mobile ground beneath our feet, questioning the soil as both material and narrative in our interconnected territories. Texts by artists, curators, historians, engineers, environmental scientists, architects, gardeners, and poets peer into the bright and dark worlds of the underground and look at memories, molecules, and resilience on the ground, industry, migration, and spectral presences on the overground. Throughout, authors revisit their own practice confronted to present earthly attachments and ecological pressure. It stemmed from a series of workshops organised in 2019 as part of the Baustelle und Botanic project. For this final dinner of the series, Overground, foodculture days invited artist Grace Denis to examine the circulation of plants and nutrients at ground level, questioning the transit of plants and seeds through various terrains. Traversing beyond the subterranean into the plane in which we most frequently encounter plant matter, the dinner investigated the cycling of nutrients amongst plants, illustrating the circulatory forms inherent to cultivation. The evening commenced with a walk and discussion on the circulation of seeds by Kenza Benabderrazik and Anne-Laure Franchette with the activation of two pairs of boots, an artwork by Paloma Ayala about seed bombing on the Mexico/US border. Entering the greenhouse, visitors were welcomed by Manon Briod and Mathieu Pochon's scenography, with fluids circulating through a pump system and engraved bioplastics quoting the publication's overground essays. Extracts from the VOLUMES archive showcased artist publications exploring the evening's theme of plant circulation. The first part of the dinner facilitated a conversation about beans and their role in nitrogen fixation, complemented by a degustation of various fresh and dried beans accompanied by fresh vegetables from Praz Bonjour. The dinner continued with the Edible Lexicon, in which participants of the dinner foraged for various definitions scattered about the greenhouse, followed by a discussion exploring the potential correlating terms. After a collective conversation about the definitions and the notion of undefining or unlearning, the terms were transcribed onto edible paper using beet ink. The second part of the Edible Lexicon prompted participants to forage for ingredients in the greenhouse to fill the spring rolls, resulting in a series of spontaneous edible encounters. Overground was realised with the participation of Anne-Laure Franchette, Grace Denis, Kenza Benabderrazik, Manon Briod, Mathieu Pochon, Paloma Ayala, and VOLUMES. Supported by Pro Helvetia. TRAVERSING BEYOND THE SUBTERRANEAN INTO THE PLANE IN WHICH WE MOST FREQUENTLY ENCOUNTER PLANT MATTER, THE DINNER INVESTIGATED THE CYCLING OF NUTRIENTS AMONGST PLANTS, ILLUSTRATING THE CIRCULATORY FORMS INHERENT TO CULTIVATION. <img width="1265" height="843" width_o="1265" height_o="843" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf8fa64c00df8c9044c0f06450426a1ed237231f873ea7f7912afb032ddf3e24/27680019.jpg" data-mid="156823093" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf8fa64c00df8c9044c0f06450426a1ed237231f873ea7f7912afb032ddf3e24/27680019.jpg" /> <img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce9a539988c60d75d56bf6081f32a94e60cf9b40fda0edd41e28c9527ce5c4ed/MobileSoils_87.jpg" data-mid="156823099" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce9a539988c60d75d56bf6081f32a94e60cf9b40fda0edd41e28c9527ce5c4ed/MobileSoils_87.jpg" /> <img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ccd7764c45760c6175455a6903c6366bf61a138e7e93aa56b7c021f1f1935d53/MobileSoils_81.jpg" data-mid="156823098" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ccd7764c45760c6175455a6903c6366bf61a138e7e93aa56b7c021f1f1935d53/MobileSoils_81.jpg" /> <img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76bda1f98ec8b6295688f1d36abd6f6a8c1138a3950a988dc81420ca8615272a/MobileSoils_42.jpg" data-mid="156823096" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76bda1f98ec8b6295688f1d36abd6f6a8c1138a3950a988dc81420ca8615272a/MobileSoils_42.jpg" /> <img width="2992" height="1995" width_o="2992" height_o="1995" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3b9432073795e6f47092df34eb8c4ceb943eafa9d29afa73de64d1c63a52bae/MobileSoils_64.jpg" data-mid="156823097" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3b9432073795e6f47092df34eb8c4ceb943eafa9d29afa73de64d1c63a52bae/MobileSoils_64.jpg" /> <img width="885" height="1327" width_o="885" height_o="1327" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3284c4e57df73bcdee8a9f5dfa3a136503c490efa435e036dd8304b1fff60197/27680008.jpg" data-mid="156823092" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/885/i/3284c4e57df73bcdee8a9f5dfa3a136503c490efa435e036dd8304b1fff60197/27680008.jpg" /> <img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e42c834e4e05d6be8925b9a710541cfce3a3cd16df4b209ce8bcee360a5a9754/MobileSoils_7.jpg" data-mid="156823094" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e42c834e4e05d6be8925b9a710541cfce3a3cd16df4b209ce8bcee360a5a9754/MobileSoils_7.jpg" /> <img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e654673a461108b9c8866934dced922098ca0a56629ffb2b599f6d6db55d568/MobileSoils_10.jpg" data-mid="156823095" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e654673a461108b9c8866934dced922098ca0a56629ffb2b599f6d6db55d568/MobileSoils_10.jpg" /> https://gracegloriadenis.com/Foodculture-Days Sat, 16 Apr 2022 09:52:37 +0000 Grace Gloria Denis https://gracegloriadenis.com/Foodculture-Days <img width="300" height="26" width_o="300" height_o="26" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd98a8c451ced2ccd2318ba939744743cbf6c7859189ad2eca52727f8afbf1d0/2Foodculturedays.svg" data-mid="140635894" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/cd98a8c451ced2ccd2318ba939744743cbf6c7859189ad2eca52727f8afbf1d0/2Foodculturedays.svg" /> <img width="2000" height="1128" width_o="2000" height_o="1128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d28ffa69371f7beb7c8b75bf05b975df97b3b1db491eef2d0038b8e63fc69ee/Untitled-2.gif" data-mid="140632544" border="0" data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d28ffa69371f7beb7c8b75bf05b975df97b3b1db491eef2d0038b8e63fc69ee/Untitled-2.gif" /> Foodculture days biennale Curated by Margaux Schwab and Tali Serruya Praz Bonjour. Vevey, Switzerland May 29th, 2021 For the third edition of the foodculture days biennale, a platform sharing knowledge on food and ecology through transdisciplinary perspectives and collaborative practices, the series Aural Oral transpired with a focus on a collaboration with local agroecology collective Praz Bonjour. Aural Oral explores a meal in the form of a sonic and performative moment in agricultural research, proposing a sensorial reflection of both processes of cultivation and consumption. The meal pairs an auditory archive of its ingredients with its ingestion; each accompanying track sketches a sonic cartography of the dish, amplifying the micro-actions of both the farm and the kitchen. Through the implementation of various types of microphones, Aural Oral renders a series of recordings of culinary and cultivation actions coupled with environmental sounds from the site of production. The ambient soundscape posits an examination of subtle processes, offering a sensorial relationship with the meal that extends beyond the domain of the gustatory. Recordings were done at Praz Bonjour, during foraging in the hills of Blonay, at the moulin astrié of Domaine de Crévy, and throughout the cooking of the meal. Additional recordings taken with a specialized microphone developed by Marcus Maeder, were woven into the soundscape to provide a sonic assessment of the biodiversity innate to Praz Bonjour’s soils. Research into the process of the moulin Astrié illuminated a specialized milling process that unravels untreated grains through a series of undulations generated by a stone wheel, rather than through the crushing of the grain as characteristic of the commercial processing of grains. The menu and its correlating soundscape featured seasonal produce, bread with flour from the Astrié mill, alongside foraged items, such as ramps, ramsons, and wild asparagus. In collaboration with: Praz Bonjour Praz Bonjour is an agroecology collective that carries out permaculture projects in the region of Vevey, Switzerland. They practice agroecology in the respect of the living and biodiversity, cultivating a plot of land with seasonal produce and chickens. Piccard Domaine Piccard is a biodynamic vineyard overlooking the Lake Geneva Basin. For four generations, the Piccard family has been cultivating and living on the land, producing wine that is free of herbicides, insecticides, and chemical fertilizers. Piccard is a low intervention vineyard, working on the development of sustainable viticulture. Domaine De Crévy Domaine De Crévy is an organic farm that cultivates wheat, barley, camelina, and other grains that are sold in a small direct sale shop focusing on seasonal items. The farm works with a closed cycle to ensure sustainability and soil health and is located in Attalens, Switzerland. Yusuke Y Offause Yusuké Y Ohhause’s Yugen Stonewares series is based upon pre-existing forms, specifically plastic packaging for snacks and salads found in Swiss supermarkets. These forms, reinterpreted by Offhause, create fossilized renderings of contemporary objects, presenting an archeological object of the present. The experimental glazings and firings generate an abstracted sense of temporality, simultaneously archaic and futuristic, the work proposes a commentary on the longevity of objects and waste. Sounding Soil Sounding Soil is a trans-transdisciplinary project that investigates the acoustics of soil ecosystems. Developed by Marcus Maeder, a sensitive needled microphone is implemented to record and assess biodiversity in soils, amplifying the complex soundscape of the soil and illuminating the microsounds of organisms, roots, and water moving. The project includes an interactive sound map of Swiss soils available online. Biovision Biovision is a non-profit organization involved in ecological and sustainable development projects, working with Sounding Soil to facilitate public awareness about ecology and sustainability in food systems, with the aim of achieving a sustainable approach to food, from production to consumption. Biovision brings Sounding Soil to pedagogical and institutional contexts, focused on the sharing of this body of knowledge. Special thanks to Margaux Schwab, Tali Serruya, Gal Sherizly, and Pierre Gilles. FOR THE THIRD EDITION OF THE FOODCULTURE DAYS BIENNALE, A PLATFORM SHARING KNOWLEDGE ON FOOD AND ECOLOGY THROUGH TRANSDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES AND COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES, THE SERIES AURAL ORAL TRANSPIRED WITH A FOCUS ON A COLLABORATION WITH LOCAL AGROECOLOGY COLLECTIVE PRAZ BONJOUR.&nbsp; <img width="3600" height="2399" width_o="3600" height_o="2399" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8bd22a2d86806c3c0a03a19f77875993290a207596a43b8c446088c27586e908/FCD1.jpg" data-mid="139787565" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8bd22a2d86806c3c0a03a19f77875993290a207596a43b8c446088c27586e908/FCD1.jpg" /> <img width="2414" height="3600" width_o="2414" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9e98ec748c88cc1ae368f8531fa91a973a84ae87aa0c2b4097762fe7acf2bc0/Photo-by-Gal-Sherizly-2.jpg" data-mid="139787573" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9e98ec748c88cc1ae368f8531fa91a973a84ae87aa0c2b4097762fe7acf2bc0/Photo-by-Gal-Sherizly-2.jpg" /> <img width="2413" height="3600" width_o="2413" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d2eebda78a6265b07003bf7e08c0bbb534830babc78026c94e3755728e495ae/FCD2.jpg" data-mid="139787566" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d2eebda78a6265b07003bf7e08c0bbb534830babc78026c94e3755728e495ae/FCD2.jpg" /> <img width="3600" height="5371" width_o="3600" height_o="5371" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a1746522cdbada6e57d63a53ad430b45d0f111e70772cc3087a6f0ef3e213f1/FCD7.jpg" data-mid="139787571" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a1746522cdbada6e57d63a53ad430b45d0f111e70772cc3087a6f0ef3e213f1/FCD7.jpg" /> <img width="5864" height="3876" width_o="5864" height_o="3876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8e933e2eee3ab2a7e6dbd17890dd74cc4cdc1892295160a02e15612e2265330/FoodCultureDays_Programme.jpg" data-mid="139787572" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8e933e2eee3ab2a7e6dbd17890dd74cc4cdc1892295160a02e15612e2265330/FoodCultureDays_Programme.jpg" /> <img width="3600" height="4800" width_o="3600" height_o="4800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca8d900c84ace4dc58a0199757a97203184f92629852d48fd6a7a6fecedea8f7/FCD4.jpg" data-mid="139787568" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca8d900c84ace4dc58a0199757a97203184f92629852d48fd6a7a6fecedea8f7/FCD4.jpg" /> <img width="1410" height="2354" width_o="1410" height_o="2354" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70c6a4729caa484b5e0fd86dbbcc86fdd7b520c77325fab5084dfb83162afee4/FCD6.jpg" data-mid="139787570" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70c6a4729caa484b5e0fd86dbbcc86fdd7b520c77325fab5084dfb83162afee4/FCD6.jpg" /> <img width="2525" height="3167" width_o="2525" height_o="3167" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/984b9ccaf1de7fdf1b0fae6680623988c3aafc28af512a2b53d42e3773685666/FCD5.jpg" data-mid="139787569" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/984b9ccaf1de7fdf1b0fae6680623988c3aafc28af512a2b53d42e3773685666/FCD5.jpg" /> <img width="2450" height="3600" width_o="2450" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0dd735e0df6d4be76a8b5354e1c827af98085460b444893f27ad3ec8f9cee4b4/R1-01379-001A-copy.jpg" data-mid="173881314" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0dd735e0df6d4be76a8b5354e1c827af98085460b444893f27ad3ec8f9cee4b4/R1-01379-001A-copy.jpg" /> https://gracegloriadenis.com/Listening-to-chinampas Fri, 29 Apr 2022 11:25:05 +0000 Grace Gloria Denis https://gracegloriadenis.com/Listening-to-chinampas <img width="300" height="23" width_o="300" height_o="23" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d37b952d09724b4ec19c0440421ebebb405b1a2259524e50836d435679d5b32/Listening-to-chinampas.svg" data-mid="141154809" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/9d37b952d09724b4ec19c0440421ebebb405b1a2259524e50836d435679d5b32/Listening-to-chinampas.svg" /> <img width="1008" height="1512" width_o="1008" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4817cf7aa97fd886534b4246434a9e84662db8a19f0c41c8a126f45200c16291/81040002.png" data-mid="141159778" border="0" data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4817cf7aa97fd886534b4246434a9e84662db8a19f0c41c8a126f45200c16291/81040002.png" /> Aural Oral: Listening to Chinampas As part of Archivo Biocultural Viva With: →Cocina Colaboratorio →Chinampa Tlazolteotl&nbsp; →Humedalia Xochimilco, Mexico March 29th and April 9th, 2022 “Archivo Biocultural Vivo is an expanded exhibition in three territories, in the Luis Nishizawa gallery. The archive is a portal to listen to and disperse biocultural memory. It is constituted as a transdisciplinary bridge between knowledges to interweave visions and explore new horizons that allow acting in different ways in the present and enunciate possible futures. This space is an invitation to break with the static spectator-object relationship, to create, cook and think together about objects and actions that inspire fairer and more supportive paths for food systems. Through collaborative action dynamics, all the elements that currently make up the archives and those that are built during the exhibition will be gradually unarchived to travel and disperse through the public space of the three communities, where they will be recontextualized and resignified.” -Cocina Colaboratorio An adaptation of the series Aural Oral, transpiring as part of Cocina Colaboratorio’s Archivo Biocultural Vivo, navigated the soundscapes of the chinampas of Xochimilco and their unique cultivation processes through various forms of recording at Chinampa Tlazolteotl. Recordings were made during a collective action of soil preparation for the construction of a chapin, an ancestral technique of soil beds that employs a quadrant system for the germination of seeds. Subsequent sounds included the gathering of a naturally occurring fertilizer and the collection of mud from the canals solely accessible via canoes. Chinampas, descending from the Nahuatl word chinamitl denoting “hedge close to the reed” [1], are an ancient sub-irrrigation agricultural system, using rectangular areas of fertile land fabricated upon shallow lake beds, dating as far back as 1250 CE. This delicate lacustrine ecosystem consists of alluvial soils, dotted with clay and basalt, yielding up to seven harvests per year. A native species of willow, salix bonplandiana, is utilized as a fencing system protecting the chinampa from erosion and wind. The specific methods and agricultural technologies used in the region are the result of the thousand-year-old knowledge of the autochthonous groups of the chinampa zone. [2] The amalgamation of this sonic research assembled an abstracted cartography of the various gestures inherent to the construction of the chapin, weaving together a site-specific study of theses ancestral techniques. The implementation of subterranean recording served as a methodology to understand the soundscapes inherent to this site-specific process of cultivation, proposing a glimpse into the phenomenology of a seed. The soundscape invokes an invitation to perceive the gestures in the way in which a seed listens, embedded and intimately, and was presented as an immersive mapping alongside a collaboratively cooked lunch with Cocina Colaboratorio at the chinampa of Humedalia for the closure of their exhibition, incorporating ingredients grown on-siteon site. Special thanks to Cocina Colaboratorio, Mariana Martínez Balvanera, Eli Guerrero, Gaby Morales Valdelamar, and Humedalia. [1]Ebel, Roland. Chinampas: An Urban Farming Model of the Aztecs and a Potential Solution for Modern Megalopolis (2020). [2]González Carmona, Emma; Torres Valladares, Cynthia Itzel. La Sustentabilidad Agricola de las Chinampas en el Valle de Mexico: Caso Xochimilco (2014). Revista Mexicana de Agronegocios, vol. 34.&nbsp; THE ETYMOLOGY OF CONSUME PROVIDES A LENS TO VIEW AN EXPANDED CONSTELLATION OF ITS MEANING. THE ORIGINS OF THE WORD ARE BORN FROM THE LATIN, SUMO, MEANING “TO TAKE.” ITS SUBSEQUENT DEFINITIONS INCLUDE THE LATE 14TH-CENTURY “TO DESTROY BY SEPARATING INTO PARTS WHICH CANNOT BE REUNITED, AS BY BURNING OR EATING.”&nbsp; <img width="1544" height="1024" width_o="1544" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/325182a22dbc93e048ca6540199f01f2dd2dd39597ef5f95d701c0e5f2ee13c7/89110009.jpg" data-mid="141154896" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/325182a22dbc93e048ca6540199f01f2dd2dd39597ef5f95d701c0e5f2ee13c7/89110009.jpg" /> <img width="1427" height="951" width_o="1427" height_o="951" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/463c5f489c317178dc89204ddf3aa143bd3638eb31cfabdb1c3fd975ad085857/81080011.jpg" data-mid="141154892" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/463c5f489c317178dc89204ddf3aa143bd3638eb31cfabdb1c3fd975ad085857/81080011.jpg" /> <img width="978" height="1467" width_o="978" height_o="1467" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d4c4cebb4d72006218ecea7ed3de611ac4e85c1a3857a2cb0e125b09ed60bdf/81040017.jpg" data-mid="141154889" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/978/i/2d4c4cebb4d72006218ecea7ed3de611ac4e85c1a3857a2cb0e125b09ed60bdf/81040017.jpg" /> <img width="1332" height="888" width_o="1332" height_o="888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a93bc60c2451a7e7f9a54e5c5baf3b2e6f73155201dc1956197781bb0bee0cb9/81040018.jpg" data-mid="141154890" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a93bc60c2451a7e7f9a54e5c5baf3b2e6f73155201dc1956197781bb0bee0cb9/81040018.jpg" /> <img width="1008" height="1512" width_o="1008" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eba8b619c97c82abc367f1d6224a11b81c372cd1a3ffcba179d4efb20b40d93d/81040002.jpg" data-mid="141154888" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eba8b619c97c82abc367f1d6224a11b81c372cd1a3ffcba179d4efb20b40d93d/81040002.jpg" /> <img width="1024" height="1544" width_o="1024" height_o="1544" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d67c202b7f3ea554d980b5c21a7e777f31792d2317a88a14db6654fa2cad5ac/89110017.jpg" data-mid="141154897" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d67c202b7f3ea554d980b5c21a7e777f31792d2317a88a14db6654fa2cad5ac/89110017.jpg" /> <img width="1390" height="927" width_o="1390" height_o="927" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/193632caca463d033751e19a33da88bdc4c185a6e64f309b6cf657ca4a5e9f3f/81080012.jpg" data-mid="141154893" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/193632caca463d033751e19a33da88bdc4c185a6e64f309b6cf657ca4a5e9f3f/81080012.jpg" /> <img width="1024" height="1544" width_o="1024" height_o="1544" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c685a60ef49f5d23972d15a75731c9cfe5e0e4471c22a2810d3d27aaca5ed5a/89110003.jpg" data-mid="141154895" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c685a60ef49f5d23972d15a75731c9cfe5e0e4471c22a2810d3d27aaca5ed5a/89110003.jpg" /> <img width="1024" height="1544" width_o="1024" height_o="1544" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/906a33d7985e16668b30764011ff50999eef1b29798fa03b410d76fa6d6b814b/81380007.JPG" data-mid="141154894" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/906a33d7985e16668b30764011ff50999eef1b29798fa03b410d76fa6d6b814b/81380007.JPG" /> https://gracegloriadenis.com/En-Partant-Il-Revient Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:11:41 +0000 Grace Gloria Denis https://gracegloriadenis.com/En-Partant-Il-Revient <img width="300" height="27" width_o="300" height_o="27" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b7f4bbc93c37665e19ee473e09b4e602bd7dfb5cb027ecb914c6db620dd96e9/en-p-il-rev.svg" data-mid="140621959" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/5b7f4bbc93c37665e19ee473e09b4e602bd7dfb5cb027ecb914c6db620dd96e9/en-p-il-rev.svg" /> <img width="872" height="1199" width_o="872" height_o="1199" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0751fa62473866bb8b1ada18e45594d679b0ae2abb1385bddb3545fb6870540d/Je-Suis-Avant.png" data-mid="138171716" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" data-draggable data-rotation="-5" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/872/i/0751fa62473866bb8b1ada18e45594d679b0ae2abb1385bddb3545fb6870540d/Je-Suis-Avant.png" /> En Partant, Il Revient Curated by Ekaterina Scherbakova Parc Saint Léger - Centre d’art Contemporain Pougues-les-Eaux, France September 26th 2020 to February 14th 2021 “Four. It is the number of points on a compass, seasons, and limbs of the human body. Place yourself in a seed of the world’s most common plant, listen to Donna Haraway and Aristotle having a casual conversation about time, find an all-purpose electric tree, and receive a puzzling message from a stranger about the metaphysical properties of breathing... For Bifo [1], poetry is only perceptible through breath, because it is its projection. Together, these two phenomena provide an ontological rhythm, a tempo that exists beyond established conventions. The duo’s super inclusive nature, which stimulates the sociopolitical imagination, is based on the principle of poiesis. Excessive activity results from abundance, not scarcity. The activity of something that didn’t exist before is generated. Ubiquitous poetic expression. The exhilarating moment of creating something that doesn’t exist, the kairos as Donna Haraway [2] calls it, the time of joy and pain. The time of trouble. The time of becoming. According to Luce Irigaray [3], when ancient Greek philosophers focused on the logos they robbed us of the process of becoming. The latter is called apeiron and can be described as an infinite phenomenon, like a fertile void or primal chaos. Seeing the world through the apeiron paradigm entails endless variations of relationships, by offering scope for differentiation. For fear of excessively inclusive openness, such a vision was excluded from a world dominated by logos, which spawned a closed and determinate framework, where relationships can only exist by similarity. This exhibition, which started with four semi-theoretical and semi-fictional dreams by the curator celebrating the notion of becoming, features five site-specific atmospheres, a video program, and a sound installation. The latter is a dream reading given by Simon.e Thiébaut. A dream’s message can seem clear to us when we’re asleep. But when we awaken, we can only search among many possible interpretations. Were we to summarize the essence of this exhibition in a single sentence, it could be the search for our place in the world in relation to other forms of life. Or a study of our inner worlds and our personal relationships to ourselves. And the acceptance of its sometimes painful diversity as being a part of our own individual space. Accepting non-Cartesian principles as a response to power linked to capitalist and patriarchal networks. The history of introspections about places and people is illustrated through biographical myths and self-fiction.” -Ekaterina Shcherbakova [1] Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Breathing: Chaos and Poetry, Semiotext(e), Los Angeles, 2019 [2] Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, Duke University Press, Durham, 2016 [3] Luce Irigaray, In the Beginning, She Was, Bloomsbury, London, 2012 En partant, il revient is an abstracted study of the aesculus hippocastanum, the horse chestnut tree, adorning the window of the large mezzanine exhibition space of Centre d’art Contemporain de Parc Saint Léger. Aesculus hippocastanum, a revered homeopathic elixir, is often implemented as an antidote for melancholia, apathy, and lack of concentration. A tincture fabricated from the seed’s extract, containing the saponins escin and prosapogenin, is employed in the treatment of venous congestion and stagnant circulation, promoting movement and fluidity. Throughout the six-month period of the piece’s conception, the tree served as a barometer for the measuring of time, the witnessing of its waxing and waning between June and February as a way to (re)grasp notions of time following an elasticization induced by pandemic temporality. In the reflection of a lost spring, or perhaps, rather, a spring that elongated the hibernations characterized by winter, one gazes outwards yet simultaneously inwards. A photograph taken at the zenith of the tree’s verdancy, with its pyramidal florescences aptly titled candles, is superimposed upon the window of the exhibition space, painting the room in a soft green light that trickles in and out throughout the stretch of day. The portrait of the hale tree hovers over the view of its material counterpart, as the tree recoils into its hivernal armature, the robust and almost imposing memory of summer remains amidst its dormancy. The green room, saturated with a summer light, dwells in homage to inherent ephemerality and layered temporalities. A scrolling poem unfurls across the span of the room, inducing the viewer into a meandering relationship with the text, words that move through the space with the subtlety of a breeze rustling through autumnal branches. The text commences at the beginning of September, embedded with traces of aesculus hippocastanum’s lineage in France, subsequently traversing towards a speculative winter, in which musings upon departures and arrivals pose a parabolic reflection. An ambient sound installation, generated with the photograph of the aesculus hippocastanum in summer, bathes the space with an immersive hymn, composing a multisensorial portrait of the centennial tree. Special thanks to Grainger Gustafson. WALL POEM: En transition, éphémère Aesculus hippocastanum ne cesse d’arriver. Le doux gardien n'attend rien, et pourtant il s'attarde dans l'attente. Linnaeus lui a donné le nom d'Aesculus, l'arbre sacré de Jupiter. Migrant des jardins de Constantinople, par la main du botaniste Bachelier, il arrive en France en 1615. De forme pyramidale, ses fleurs hermaphrodites sont les premières à entrer dans la tendresse du printemps et dès la pollinisation par les premières abeilles, débute la croissance de sa petite enveloppe verte. Ses feuilles palmées sont robustes en été, car la maturation progressive de ses cocons protège une essence précieuse, censée améliorer la circulation sanguine, tandis que d'autres considèrent ses bourgeons comme un antidote à la mélancolie.&nbsp; La graine protégée par son armure, entame sa lente descente vers l'automne, libérant ses fruits gonflés avant d'entrer dans son sommeil hivernal. Il ne se lamente pas sur le passé, il n'aspire pas à ce qui est à venir. Exposé à des vents tricentenaires, le teint serein de l'Aesculus hippocastanum reste stoïque en toutes saisons. Dans sa fugacité omniprésente, l'entrée est parallèle au départ. La nostalgie est-elle l'oubli de ce qui nous attend ? Peut-on vivre dans la verdure perpétuelle malgré des branches dénudées ? Car, assurément la verdure n'est pas seulement encapsulée dans un défilé de pétales, l'esprit robuste de l'hiver allume aussi la graine. La graine qui pousse sans cesse, en dormance, palpite encore dans les nuits silencieuses et lumineuses. Est-ce que quelque chose part vraiment, ou plutôt reste en perpétuel retour? Photo © Diane Arques / ADAGP, Paris, 2020 LINNAEUS GAVE THE NAME AESCULUS, THE SACRED TREE OF JUPITER. MIGRATING FROM THE GARDENS OF CONSTANTINOPLE, VIA THE HAND OF BOTANIST BACHELIER, IT ARRIVED IN FRANCE IN 1615, NESTING INTO THE GARDENS OF THE HOTEL DE SOUBISE. ITS PYRAMIDAL, HERMAPHRODITE FLOWERS ARE EARLY TO ARRIVE IN SPRING, WITH AID OF POLLINATION BY THE SEASON’S FIRST BEES.&nbsp; <img width="3697" height="2464" width_o="3697" height_o="2464" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b4f5bb1fe287094e59b3da37cab5a181b3b95f3666aeb546472abb74aa7751d/Parc_Saint_Leger_2020_photo_Diane_Arques_HR17.png" data-mid="138174773" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b4f5bb1fe287094e59b3da37cab5a181b3b95f3666aeb546472abb74aa7751d/Parc_Saint_Leger_2020_photo_Diane_Arques_HR17.png" /> <img width="2420" height="3629" width_o="2420" height_o="3629" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd347387c244e6984bb0ca61d54996e588d9f33ed0a8889753d95be9638c661e/Parc_Saint_Leger_2020_photo_Diane_Arques_HR20.png" data-mid="138174521" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd347387c244e6984bb0ca61d54996e588d9f33ed0a8889753d95be9638c661e/Parc_Saint_Leger_2020_photo_Diane_Arques_HR20.png" /> <img width="3830" height="2554" width_o="3830" height_o="2554" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9b400223f7d682dffdedaf0692f520e3a56afd85d6cbf1e001173eaf349b1ff/Parc_Saint_Leger_2020_photo_Diane_Arques_HR19.png" data-mid="138174775" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9b400223f7d682dffdedaf0692f520e3a56afd85d6cbf1e001173eaf349b1ff/Parc_Saint_Leger_2020_photo_Diane_Arques_HR19.png" /> <img width="3324" height="2218" width_o="3324" height_o="2218" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/099aebcca0aea1852d1524b671bf3af62798aa9f2850b5f12d4e66d5c7c64e86/Parc_Saint_Leger_2020_photo_Diane_Arques_HR18.png" data-mid="138174774" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/099aebcca0aea1852d1524b671bf3af62798aa9f2850b5f12d4e66d5c7c64e86/Parc_Saint_Leger_2020_photo_Diane_Arques_HR18.png" /> https://gracegloriadenis.com/Ce-Dont-Le-Calcaire-Se-Souvient-Un-Murmure-L-oublie Mon, 25 Apr 2022 10:23:26 +0000 Grace Gloria Denis https://gracegloriadenis.com/Ce-Dont-Le-Calcaire-Se-Souvient-Un-Murmure-L-oublie <img width="300" height="36" width_o="300" height_o="36" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d26f0c414589b5d23f2f408ed67529e32cd0e6eeb5373d15abc7297602dc6038/CE-DONT2.svg" data-mid="140623194" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/d26f0c414589b5d23f2f408ed67529e32cd0e6eeb5373d15abc7297602dc6038/CE-DONT2.svg" /> <img width="2156" height="1437" width_o="2156" height_o="1437" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e8103952bd6fef46fdd53d5eee9015c3a62d6138cbdf55b6a183da33de37025/2StFons_Rocks1-2.png" data-mid="140652420" border="0" data-rotation="30" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e8103952bd6fef46fdd53d5eee9015c3a62d6138cbdf55b6a183da33de37025/2StFons_Rocks1-2.png" /> Ce dont le calcaire se souvient, un murmure l’oublie&nbsp; Curated by Ekaterina Scherbakova Centre d’Art Plastiques de Saint-Fons Saint-Fons, France December 15, 2020 to February 6, 2021 Salome Talvaz is a fictional visionary, active in the beginning of the 20th century. Her origins are unclear, but some sources prove that she was raised in San Francisco. No concrete witness of her practice is left, though her influence on the philosophical circles of her times is considered to be underestimated. She settled in Saint-Fons for a decade in the 1910s. The biographers suppose that she might have been a part of a society of wandering rocks followers who believed that glacial erratics, as now discovered transported by glaciers, were the signs of a place's uniqueness. Thus, Talvaz followed the path of the wandering stone of Saint-Fons. The peculiarity of this persona is a vow of silence she practiced. This rupture with language is seen as a method to lose nothing. The heritage of her silence and the muted archive she left behind is suggested to be a starting point for participating artists’ interventions. -&nbsp; Ekaterina Scherbakova Embracing Scherbakova’s Talvaz as a catalyst to unravel a speculative and seemingly forgotten epistolary exchange, a series of letters between two women in the spring of 1913 were unearthed to reveal a conversation of nascent desires with elemental correlation. The collection of letters between Salome Talvaz and Alice Pénisson, native of Saints Fons and the only woman to transcribe a historical account of the city, served as the sole modality of communication of Talvaz during her vow of silence in the 1910s. The four letters are characterized by earth, water, fire, and air; each letter encapsulating a metaphorical resemblance. Their letters, left embedded in the peripheral matter of the glacial erratic of Saint Fons, located at 45° 42′ 06″ N 4° 51′ 19″ E, were exhibited amidst an amalgam of materials collected from the site, with specimens of soil and moss encompassing the letters. The glacial erratic, a large limestone mass of Savoy origin deposited in a commune outside of Lyon, served as a fulcrum for their brief yet poignant exchange. Erratics, transported through the tributaries of melting glacial ice, arrive in contexts with which they bear no resemblance, echoing their etymological origins, errare (to wander).&nbsp; Harboring whispered and ambulatory sentiments, the geological anomaly procured the muted archives of the two women, residing in silence since 1913. 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