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Botany under Influence<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t[vc_column_text]\n
Artists
\nAlberto Baraya
\nJoscelyn Gardner
\nSasha Huber & Petri Saarikko
\n<\/span><\/strong>Kapwani Kiwanga
\nPia R\u00f6nicke
\nBeatriz Santiago Mu\u00f1oz<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ el_class=”text-center” offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”]\t
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Botany under Influence<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t[vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n
Artists
\nAlberto Baraya
\nJoscelyn Gardner
\nSasha Huber & Petri Saarikko<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]\n
Kapwani Kiwanga
\nPia R\u00f6nicke
\nBeatriz Santiago Mu\u00f1oz<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1578632516200{padding-top: 4vh !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md”][vc_column_text]Botany under Influence<\/em> delves into the politics of pants and explores systems of meaning that have been impressed upon nature, flora, and seeds throughout eras of imperialism, colonialism and globalisation. Unearthing forgotten and parallel histories, this exhibition reveals how the exportation of natural resources has affected worldwide power structures and cultural behaviour. It pushes us to reconsider common perception and representations about nature \u2018having always been there\u2019, being \u2018neutral\u2019 or \u2018passive\u2019, when instead plants embody the larger History and are integral actors in it.<\/p>\n

This group show investigates historical gaps and the economic and diplomatic implications of nature\u2019s uses and international exchange flow patterns. Its starting point is the imperial era, when Western powers built their wealth by looting human and natural resources \u2013 systematically appropriating or exporting workforce, plants and minerals. Throughout the ages and societies, control over flora and seeds has become a symbol of national, political, and food sovereignties.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column_text]Botany under Influence<\/em> delves into the politics of pants and explores systems of meaning that have been impressed upon nature, flora, and seeds throughout eras of imperialism, colonialism and globalisation. Unearthing forgotten and parallel histories, this exhibition reveals how the exportation of natural resources has affected worldwide power structures and cultural behaviour. It pushes us to reconsider common perception and representations about nature \u2018having always been there\u2019, being \u2018neutral\u2019 or \u2018passive\u2019, when instead plants embody the larger History and are integral actors in it.<\/p>\n

This group show investigates historical gaps and the economic and diplomatic implications of nature\u2019s uses and international exchange flow patterns. Its starting point is the imperial era, when Western powers built their wealth by looting human and natural resources \u2013 systematically appropriating or exporting workforce, plants and minerals. Throughout the ages and societies, control over flora and seeds has become a symbol of national, political, and food sovereignties.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1578632591541{padding-top: 4vh !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md”]\t

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\u2018Studies of flora and the natural world have helped to create borders and establish relationships of power, even as nature itself often defies human control and redefines borders\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1571409156883{padding-bottom: 4vh !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column_text]\n

\u2018Studies of flora and the natural world have helped to create borders and establish relationships of power, even as nature itself often defies human control and redefines borders\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1578632633195{padding-top: 4vh !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md”][vc_column_text]\n

Exploiting & Erasing Local Knowledge<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]In Herbarium of Artificial Plants<\/em> (2001\u2013present), Alberto Baraya (Colombia) collects and classifies synthetic specimens (plastic, cloth, paper) found following the ancient routes of colonial scientific or naturalist expeditions (17-19th centuries). In this parodic re-enactment \u2013 from the Americas to Asia or Australia \u2013 he investigates the economic and political agendas lying behind the inventory and categorization of the colonies\u2019 indigenous flora. Baraya denunciates how those missions\u2019 botanical plundering opened the way to territorial domination and requisition. Presented as photographs, his fictitious flowers reflect the constructed nature of colonial taxonomy and its dangers.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Likewise, Joscelyn Gardner (Barbados) plays on natural history illustrations\u2019 aesthetics in Creole Portraits III<\/em> (2009-2011). Grounded in Caribbean colonial archives (diaries, abolitionist publications, plantation records), she addresses gaps in the history of slavery such as the masters\u2019 sexual abuses on women. Despite abortion being prohibited, female slaves secretly used natural abortifacients. If the \u2018miscarriage\u2019 was discovered, they were whipped and had to wear iron collars. Gardner intertwines depictions of the tropical plants swallowed with torture tools and elaborate feminine African hairstyles. She pays homage to those anonymous slaves \u2018naming\u2019 them in her prints\u2019 titles.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1571409156883{padding-bottom: 4vh !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]\n

Exploiting & Erasing Local Knowledge<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]In Herbarium of Artificial Plants<\/em> (2001\u2013present), Alberto Baraya (Colombia) collects and classifies synthetic specimens (plastic, cloth, paper) found following the ancient routes of colonial scientific or naturalist expeditions (17-19th centuries). In this parodic re-enactment \u2013 from the Americas to Asia or Australia \u2013 he investigates the economic and political agendas lying behind the inventory and categorization of the colonies\u2019 indigenous flora. Baraya denunciates how those missions\u2019 botanical plundering opened the way to territorial domination and requisition. Presented as photographs, his fictitious flowers reflect the constructed nature of colonial taxonomy and its dangers.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Likewise, Joscelyn Gardner (Barbados) plays on natural history illustrations\u2019 aesthetics in Creole Portraits III<\/em> (2009-2011). Grounded in Caribbean colonial archives (diaries, abolitionist publications, plantation records), she addresses gaps in the history of slavery such as the masters\u2019 sexual abuses on women. Despite abortion being prohibited, female slaves secretly used natural abortifacients. If the \u2018miscarriage\u2019 was discovered, they were whipped and had to wear iron collars. Gardner intertwines depictions of the tropical plants swallowed with torture tools and elaborate feminine African hairstyles. She pays homage to those anonymous slaves \u2018naming\u2019 them in her prints\u2019 titles.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row thb_full_width=”true” thb_row_padding=”true” thb_column_padding=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1578632803995{padding-top: 4vh !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md”]\t
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Recording Loss & Questioning Independence<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n

Another tribute is Flowers for Africa<\/em> (2011-present), celebrating African countries\u2019 liberation struggles and access to sovereignty. Reproducing floral decorations found in archival photographs of those independences\u2019 formalisations, Kapwani Kiwanga (Canada) comments on postcolonial transitions. The recreated arrangements revive the solemn historical testimonies they once bore. Inspired by official ceremonies embodying the passing of power, she hints at the everlasting decorum and staging of diplomatic negotiations. As her fresh bouquets sculptures naturally wither during the show, Kiwanga also questions us on what we choose to commemorate and why.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n

Pia R\u00f6nicke (Denmark) explores herbariums\u2019 documentary potential to record disappearances and moderate loss. In the context of a war-torn Syria, the transfer for safeguarding of food crops from Aleppo\u2019s grains\u2019 bank to Svalbard Global Seed Vault inspired R\u00f6nicke’s multimedia installation The Pages of Day and Night<\/em> (2015). She mixes photogravures of plant samples collected during the 1760s Danish Arabia Expedition to Egypt and Syria; Syrian species recently sent to Norway; video; press clippings and poetry books (Adonis and Tomas Transtr\u00f6mer).<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1572619090632{padding-top: 4vh !important;padding-bottom: 4vh !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

Recording Loss & Questioning Independence<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

Another tribute is Flowers for Africa<\/em> (2011-present), celebrating African countries\u2019 liberation struggles and access to sovereignty. Reproducing floral decorations found in archival photographs of those independences\u2019 formalisations, Kapwani Kiwanga (Canada) comments on postcolonial transitions. The recreated arrangements revive the solemn historical testimonies they once bore. Inspired by official ceremonies embodying the passing of power, she hints at the everlasting decorum and staging of diplomatic negotiations. As her fresh bouquets sculptures naturally wither during the show, Kiwanga also questions us on what we choose to commemorate and why.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

Pia R\u00f6nicke (Denmark) explores herbariums\u2019 documentary potential to record disappearances and moderate loss. In the context of a war-torn Syria, the transfer for safeguarding of food crops from Aleppo\u2019s grains\u2019 bank to Svalbard Global Seed Vault inspired R\u00f6nicke’s multimedia installation The Pages of Day and Night<\/em> (2015). She mixes photogravures of plant samples collected during the 1760s Danish Arabia Expedition to Egypt and Syria; Syrian species recently sent to Norway; video; press clippings and poetry books (Adonis and Tomas Transtr\u00f6mer).<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1578632633195{padding-top: 4vh !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md”]\t

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\u2018Coussonnet seeks not only to dismantle these narratives, but also to remind viewers that the labeled, whether plants or human bodies, remain powerful free agents.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Quotes by Monica Uszerowicz, An Exhibition Examines How Plant Taxonomies Influenced World History<\/em>, Artsy, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”]\t

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\u2018Coussonnet seeks not only to dismantle these narratives, but also to remind viewers that the labeled, whether plants or human bodies, remain powerful free agents.\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text]\t

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Shattered Landscapes & Spirituality<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The Remedies, Australia <\/em>(2015) video by Sasha Huber & Petri Saarikko\u2019s (Finland\/Switzerland) investigates indigenous system knowledge and more particularly healing techniques and traditional medicinal recipes linked to herbs. In this short film, the duo has interviewed Aboriginals and other inhabitants from the city of Mildura about their relationship with the eucalyptus tree, a sacred plant they originally used as a landmark to define their territories. By exporting eucalyptus throughout the world from Australia and introducing this species in several continents, imperial powers destructed local landscapes and shattered natives\u2019 mental maps.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Beatriz Santiago Mu\u00f1oz (Puerto Rico) also presents reflexions on the energetic power of vegetation while looking at the confused and contradictory ties of Puerto Rico and the USA, balancing between independence and sway. In the video Ojos para mis enemigos<\/em> (2014), she wanders through the closed U.S. Navy base at Roosevelt Roads, Ceiba \u2013 one of the several military infrastructure the USA imposed on Puerto Rico\u2019s territory despite early caveats around the risks of landscape reshaping and perturbation of local biodiversity and waters. Amongst this dystopian landscape, a man picks up cotton flowers for an orisha, a divinity in santer\u00eda.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Looking at history through the perspective of nature, the artists in Botany under Influence<\/em> share counter official narratives around flora, drowning us in an abundance of \u2018strange flowers.\u2019 Despite the plants\u2019 beauty, our unease reminds us that beyond relations of power, nature\u2019s circulation routes take us back to our relationship with the land and have an impact on our origins, collective and individual memories, and survival.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1572621159138{padding-top: 4vh !important;padding-bottom: 4vh !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]\n

Shattered Landscapes & Spirituality<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]The Remedies, Australia <\/em>(2015) video by Sasha Huber & Petri Saarikko\u2019s (Finland\/Switzerland) investigates indigenous system knowledge and more particularly healing techniques and traditional medicinal recipes linked to herbs. In this short film, the duo has interviewed Aboriginals and other inhabitants from the city of Mildura about their relationship with the eucalyptus tree, a sacred plant they originally used as a landmark to define their territories. By exporting eucalyptus throughout the world from Australia and introducing this species in several continents, imperial powers destructed local landscapes and shattered natives\u2019 mental maps.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Beatriz Santiago Mu\u00f1oz (Puerto Rico) also presents reflexions on the energetic power of vegetation while looking at the confused and contradictory ties of Puerto Rico and the USA, balancing between independence and sway. In the video Ojos para mis enemigos<\/em> (2014), she wanders through the closed U.S. Navy base at Roosevelt Roads, Ceiba \u2013 one of the several military infrastructure the USA imposed on Puerto Rico\u2019s territory despite early caveats around the risks of landscape reshaping and perturbation of local biodiversity and waters. Amongst this dystopian landscape, a man picks up cotton flowers for an orisha, a divinity in santer\u00eda.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Looking at history through the perspective of nature, the artists in Botany under Influence<\/em> share counter official narratives around flora, drowning us in an abundance of \u2018strange flowers.\u2019 Despite the plants\u2019 beauty, our unease reminds us that beyond relations of power, nature\u2019s circulation routes take us back to our relationship with the land and have an impact on our origins, collective and individual memories, and survival.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1578632633195{padding-top: 4vh !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md”]\t
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apexart, New York, USA
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apexart, New York, USA
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