{"id":628,"date":"2019-11-03T10:18:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T09:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sisume.com\/?post_type=portfolio&p=628"},"modified":"2024-12-06T10:11:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T09:11:45","slug":"leave-no-stone-unturned-remuer-la-terre","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/sisume.com\/index.php\/portfolio\/leave-no-stone-unturned-remuer-la-terre\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave No Stone Unturned [Remuer la terre]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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[Remuer la terre]<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n
Artists
\nHanan Benammar
\nAbdessamad El Montassir
\nSasha Huber &\u00a0Petri Saarikko
\n<\/span><\/strong>Farah Khelil
\nKapwani Kiwanga
\nUriel Orlow
\nCorinne Silva<\/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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Artists
\nHanan Benammar
\nAbdessamad El Montassir
\nSasha Huber &\u00a0Petri Saarikko<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n
Farah Khelil
\nKapwani Kiwanga
\nUriel Orlow
\nCorinne Silva<\/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_1578628796486{padding-top: 4vh !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md”][vc_column_text]Leave No Stone Unturned [Remuer la terre] <\/em>is a collective exhibition that highlights the links between plants and politics in Morocco and other countries of the global South, while rejecting the idea that nature is ornamental and neutral. By scratching the visible surface to plunge into the interstices and gaps of history, the selected works show plants are intertwined in power networks and suffer from the paradox of being knowledge resources simultaneously accessible and subjected to processes of invisibility. While human impact on climate and environmental change is increasingly discussed in public and scientific debates, still few institutions and individuals explore in depth the largely underestimated relations between plants and politics. Flora is indeed an actor, a pawn and a witness of History, revealing narratives forgotten and eluded by official history\u2019s records.[\/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]Leave No Stone Unturned [Remuer la terre] <\/em>is a collective exhibition that highlights the links between plants and politics in Morocco and other countries of the global South, while rejecting the idea that nature is ornamental and neutral. By scratching the visible surface to plunge into the interstices and gaps of history, the selected works show plants are intertwined in power networks and suffer from the paradox of being knowledge resources simultaneously accessible and subjected to processes of invisibility. While human impact on climate and environmental change is increasingly discussed in public and scientific debates, still few institutions and individuals explore in depth the largely underestimated relations between plants and politics. Flora is indeed an actor, a pawn and a witness of History, revealing narratives forgotten and eluded by official history\u2019s records.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”align-center” css=”.vc_custom_1578628771294{padding-top: 4vh !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md”]\t
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\n\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t[vc_empty_space height=”50px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1578628809331{padding-top: 4vh !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md”][vc_column_text]In this, the long-lasting relationship between conquest and botany during the eras of imperialism and colonialism is particularly significant. Amongst other strategies, Western empires widely resorted to naturalist and scientific expeditions to map the territories they then dominated and exploited. Today, in the age of globalisation, nature is still intertwined at various scales in local, national and international power relations.<\/p>\n

Within this global framework, the exhibition Leave No Stone Unturned [Remuer la terre] <\/em>focuses more precisely on the notions of natural resistance and of traditional healing techniques and remedies approaching flora both as an allegory of political frictions (from independence to opposition and diplomacy) and as a system of meaning, knowledge and beliefs in its own right (navigating between use, transmission and oblivion). Thanks to the long-term and research-based processes of the artists included in the show, let\u2019s re-read history through new perspectives.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The first room explores the diplomatic uses of flora and how botany has been harnessed, out of pure tokenism, as a national symbol. The second room looks into natural remedies and medicine and seeks to understand the properties of plants in relation to the cultural context they are entangled in. The third room bridges natural resistance and caring traditions by presenting radical gardening strategies and observing knowledge transmission mechanisms.<\/p>\n

Leave No Stone Unturned [Remuer la terre] <\/em>initiates reflections on nature, politics and power structures, moving from Morocco to Tunisia, from South Africa to the Levant, Haiti, Turkey and even deserts. It is essential to encourage such a dialogue as rummaging through soil, seeds and plants, we discover another nature: a nature not only constructed by its relations with man \u2013often through domination and exploitation, but also through respect, spirituality and healing\u2013 but a nature that reclaims its agency.[\/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 width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]In this, the long-lasting relationship between conquest and botany during the eras of imperialism and colonialism is particularly significant. Amongst other strategies, Western empires widely resorted to naturalist and scientific expeditions to map the territories they then dominated and exploited. Today, in the age of globalisation, nature is still intertwined at various scales in local, national and international power relations.<\/p>\n

Within this global framework, the exhibition Leave No Stone Unturned [Remuer la terre] <\/em>focuses more precisely on the notions of natural resistance and of traditional healing techniques and remedies approaching flora both as an allegory of political frictions (from independence to opposition and diplomacy) and as a system of meaning, knowledge and beliefs in its own right (navigating between use, transmission and oblivion). Thanks to the long-term and research-based processes of the artists included in the show, let\u2019s re-read history through new perspectives.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]The first room explores the diplomatic uses of flora and how botany has been harnessed, out of pure tokenism, as a national symbol. The second room looks into natural remedies and medicine and seeks to understand the properties of plants in relation to the cultural context they are entangled in. The third room bridges natural resistance and caring traditions by presenting radical gardening strategies and observing knowledge transmission mechanisms.<\/p>\n

Leave No Stone Unturned [Remuer la terre] <\/em>initiates reflections on nature, politics and power structures, moving from Morocco to Tunisia, from South Africa to the Levant, Haiti, Turkey and even deserts. It is essential to encourage such a dialogue as rummaging through soil, seeds and plants, we discover another nature: a nature not only constructed by its relations with man \u2013often through domination and exploitation, but also through respect, spirituality and healing\u2013 but a nature that reclaims its agency.[\/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_1578628933336{padding-top: 4vh !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md”]\t

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Le Cube – independent art room, Rabat, Morocco
\n<\/span>November 14, 2019 – January 24, 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text]\t\n\t\tTO THEIR WEBSITE<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t[vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1626854652574{padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]This exhibition received support from the Embassy of Canada to Morocco, the Institut Fran\u00e7ais du Maroc, London College of Communication \u2013 University of the Arts London, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, and the Swiss Embassy in Rabat.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”]\t
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Le Cube – independent art room, Rabat, Morocco
\n<\/span>November 14, 2019 – January 24, 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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