Speaking Soil (Sammlung Philara)
Wed, Apr 10
|Düsseldorf
Speaking Soil, a group exhibition by Philara Collection and BORDERLAND RESIDENCIES, delves into soil's role as resource, habitat, and territory. Rosa Vrij presents a durational drawing performance, exploring grounding and slowing down as a practice of being present.
Time & Location
Apr 10, 2024, 6:00 PM – Jun 02, 2024, 6:00 PM
Düsseldorf, Birkenstraße 47a, 40233 Düsseldorf, Germany
About the event
Together with BORDERLAND RESIDENCIES, Sammlung Philara presents the group exhibition Speaking Soil. 12 international artists negotiate aspects of soil as a resource, habitat and territory as well as related rhetorics around ownership, resettlement, migration and climate change. The starting point for Speaking Soil is the large-scale excursion program "Art and Soil", in which the artists took part as fellows of the art residency network BORDERLAND RESIDENCIES.
In her contribution 'The soles of my feet merge' Rosa Vrij engages in a three day drawing performance. Through meditation and movement excercises she responds to the exhibition space with charcoal and chalk, resulting in a floor drawing. In the face of a capitalist society that often demands immediacy and rapid responses, this live drawing is an act of delaying and being present, to deepen a meaningful relationship with the ground beneath us.
