Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky’s studio is a place of experimentation, where photography, plants and food intersect. She photographs leaves and twigs in the darkroom and under direct sunlight, while the kitchen becomes a second laboratory. There she transforms clover, millet and camelina into sorbets and uses plant juices as a photographic medium. Kovacovsky invites viewers to experience plants with all their senses by seeing, tasting and imagining.
“I do not have day and I do not have moonlight I do not believe in time I do believe in water" Dionne Brand
Two years ago, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson inspired the  "Land As Pedagogy" reading session with Klasse Klima. Now, we are looking forward to reading together about Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg practices of resistance grounded in the histories of land, water and colonialism.
ERDE/N, kuratiert von Carole Kambli und Sabine Rusterholz Petko, ist der erste Teil des Ausstellungszyklus Expanded Fields und widmet sich der Erde – als Lebensgrundlage, Symbol, Material und Raum für Transformation. Die Ausstellung versammelt künstlerische Arbeiten und Langzeit- sowie Kollaborationsprojekte, die die Erde als Nahrungsspenderin, Baumaterial, energetische Ressource, spirituelle Kraft oder Ort der Herkunft und Identität begreifen – und kritisch befragen.
How do you extract natural resources from the land when the peoples whose territory you're on believe that those plant, animal and minerals have both spirit and therefore agency? Leanne Simpson
The interdisciplinary scholar Banu Subramaniam refers to Leanne Simpson and other indigenous, feminist, and queer researchers and activists to narrate the violent history of Botany. We dedicate a second session to the book Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism to learn about the colonial project - and botany as a study of plants without their kins, their soil and their people.
What can we learn from photosynthesis? I would like to find out how we can make photosynthesis tangible and learn how it tastes. How is sugar / energy being passed on within the ecosystem? How is everything that heterotrophs eat interconnected? What is a leaf and how does it work? This involves exploring the tastes of various plants and understanding the interconnectedness of organisms.
Two year research project at the Royal Academie of Fine Arts Antwerp
Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky’s studio is a place of experimentation, where photography, plants and food intersect. She photographs leaves and twigs in the darkroom and under direct sunlight, while the kitchen becomes a second laboratory. There she transforms clover, millet and camelina into sorbets and uses plant juices as a photographic medium. Kovacovsky invites viewers to experience plants with all their senses by seeing, tasting and imagining.
“I do not have day and I do not have moonlight I do not believe in time I do believe in water" Dionne Brand
Two years ago, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson inspired the  "Land As Pedagogy" reading session with Klasse Klima. Now, we are looking forward to reading together about Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg practices of resistance grounded in the histories of land, water and colonialism.
ERDE/N, kuratiert von Carole Kambli und Sabine Rusterholz Petko, ist der erste Teil des Ausstellungszyklus Expanded Fields und widmet sich der Erde – als Lebensgrundlage, Symbol, Material und Raum für Transformation. Die Ausstellung versammelt künstlerische Arbeiten und Langzeit- sowie Kollaborationsprojekte, die die Erde als Nahrungsspenderin, Baumaterial, energetische Ressource, spirituelle Kraft oder Ort der Herkunft und Identität begreifen – und kritisch befragen.
How do you extract natural resources from the land when the peoples whose territory you're on believe that those plant, animal and minerals have both spirit and therefore agency? Leanne Simpson
The interdisciplinary scholar Banu Subramaniam refers to Leanne Simpson and other indigenous, feminist, and queer researchers and activists to narrate the violent history of Botany. We dedicate a second session to the book Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism to learn about the colonial project - and botany as a study of plants without their kins, their soil and their people.
What can we learn from photosynthesis? I would like to find out how we can make photosynthesis tangible and learn how it tastes. How is sugar / energy being passed on within the ecosystem? How is everything that heterotrophs eat interconnected? What is a leaf and how does it work? This involves exploring the tastes of various plants and understanding the interconnectedness of organisms.
Two year research project at the Royal Academie of Fine Arts Antwerp