Xωράφι (As Above, So Below) is an ongoing artistic and agro-cultural research project initiated by Kirke Meng and her partner in 2022.
Xωράφι (pronounced chorafi) means field in Greek, and the exhibition is based on Meng's personal story of drilling a well on her partner's family land in Greece in an attempt to protect a regenerative agro-ecological area from a steady depletion of local water resources. Through site-specific cyanotype prints made near the water well, Meng documents concrete labour processes in the field. This also serves as a metaphor for a deeper societal structure and conflict. Working on, with, and around the well becomes a speculation on whether it is possible to regenerate areas where economic structures have eroded everything, from the land to social structures.
The book that will be launched during the exhibition, depicts Meng's process of coming to an understanding of the climatic and economic destabilisation taking place around her and how, paradoxically, this has resulted in feeling compelled to privatise a body of water, in order to save it on a collective level.
The exhibition is realised in close collaboration with curator Malou Solfjeld and with support from the chairperson of the association Skovgro, Malou Juelskjær (Associate Professor, PhD at the Danish Institute of Education, Aarhus University).
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