film still
ATSWETE p.26-27
(sharing the book "Common Medicinal Plants of the Cordillera Region" by CHESTCORE Cordillera and Leonard Co)
video projection
24 mins 07 secs
2022
My hands pick up the book “Common Medicinal Plants of the Cordillera Region” by Leonard L. Co, and flip to pg 26 and 27, which shows the medicinal use and preparations for the atswete plant.
This work was produced for the group exhibition eating the other, curated by Noor Bhangu.
eating the other elaborates on the relationships between food, race, and belonging through distinct artworks and public programming. The exhibition features four artists, offering various entry and exit points into timely conversations around food as a medium for eating together and cooking back.
Artists Molly JF Caldwell, Rajyashri Goody, Gabrielle Paré, and Alize Zorlutuna will share projects emerging out of diverse cultural sites of food production and consumption. Collages, installations, literatures, workshops, and foodstuff will be exhibited together to gesture to the critical potential of food in contemporary art.
Read the press release for the exhibition eating the other here.
diggin’ round the root (I,II,III)
cut paper
29,7 x 21 cm
2022
Photos: Toni Hafkenscheid
