A Land Within

About

“The land knows you, even when you are lost.” Robin Wall Kimmerer
(Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants)

Any consideration of our relation to the land we inhabit is at once political, geographic, historical, and economic. How does the land shape our conception of personal space and collective place? Where does it start and end, what are its boundaries? How has is changed over time and why? And of course, who possesses the land? Who profits from the things that may grow from it or be built upon it?

To consider ourselves a part of the land – and the land as a part of us – requires other, hazier, questions. How does the land inhabit us? How do its contours and the elements shape our bodies? How can its rhythms regulate, reflect or heighten our emotions? What stories do we tell together?

In A Land Within, a group of female artists engage with both distinct geographical places – from a forgotten Bronze Age settlement to the moon – and imagined landscapes – interior fantasies or possible futures. Often steeped in history and research, their projects are linked by psychological vigilance, whimsical force and a spirit of exploration and adventure.

Artists:

Rhiannon Adam, Alison Lloyd, Kathryn Martin, Véronique Rolland, Molly Maltman, Eric Hosking, Sara Knelman

Tuesday - Sunday: 11-5pm (Mondays closed)

https://2024.photofringe.org/exhibitions/a-land-within