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.
Program:
Opening: Thursday May 15th, 3-7 pm.
Conversation between the artist, the curator and the researcher and co-founder of Skovgro, Malou Juelskjær: Thursday May 27th, 6 pm.
There will be wine and snacks and the event is free, but please sign up to reserve a spot malousolfjeld@msn.com
The conversation will revolve around agro-activism, the different legislation in regard to forest, agriculture and water protection, in Denmark, Greece and Palestine, with a focus on different examples of intraspecies caretaking methods and non-monetary economies.
Through site-specific cyanotype prints and material studies made near the
water well, Meng documents the process of field labour, which also serves as a metaphor for a deeper societal structure and conflict.
water well, Meng documents the process of field labour, which also serves as a metaphor for a deeper societal structure and conflict.
Working on, with and around the well thus becomes a speculation on whether it is possible to regenerate areas where economic structures have eroded everything from the land to social structures. This 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 her own privatization of a water body in order to save it on a collective level.
Kirke Hundevad Meng works with drawing and text installations. The overarching theme in Meng's practice is semiotic overlaps between our physical and political landscapes and how those dynamics structure our psyche and worldview. Meng graduated from the Kungliga Konsthögskolan and is based between Copenhagen and Sithonia.
Malou Solfjeld holds a degree in art history from the University of Copenhagen and has worked with art education and curating in Denmark and Europe since the 2000s. After becoming a mum in 2022, she started Kunst på Barsel, which offers parents and children the opportunity to experience art exhibitions on a weekly basis during their maternity leave. As a curator, Malou has for many years been concerned with more-than-human relationships across species, and since realising an exhibition programme under the title Solastalgia on Bornholm and Mallorca in 2022, her focus has been on care, hydrofeminism, and the personal and planetary consequences of a capitalist society and its devastating effects on living things.
The exhibition is supported by Statens Kunstfond.
Source: Bladr