An exhibition entitled The Country of Plants opens in the Budapest Gallery
Will open on June 2 at 6 p.m. Budapest Gallery The Exhibition of the Country of Plants, in which many creators are represented.
The starting point of the exhibition is how much our relationship with care has changed in recent years as a result of the pandemic. Examining the small, even invisible manifestations of caring, and how this could extend to the non-human world around us, the focus of the exhibition was on plants. There are a number of artistic strategies where attention is paid to the living world in our immediate environment and collaboration becomes more important than just a more livable future for man. The former symbolism of plants, flowers and fruits is being replaced by current interpretations seeking a way out of contemporary crises.
During the epidemic, many members of Generation Y became so-called plant parentté and shared his experienced home jungle or learned about plant care on cross-border social media platforms. This is related to the desire to isolate our environment while isolating our activities, which also has a positive effect on our mental health. Because of the heightened interest in the past, it is not for itself, but can be created through connectivity with different communities, practices worth reviving, and a perspective on the future.
Closely related to the issue of time travel in the past, it evokes, among other things, the use of herbs that are often relegated to the background in Western medicine, the early herbariums, or the first greenhouses in Europe. Suggestions for the future revolve around the concepts of moving forward and starting anew: rethinking the role of previously numbered invasive species and herbs, leading to self-sustaining practices. As the title of the exhibition is the largest unit in the taxonomic classification of plants, so, although aware of the power structure of systematization, it makes an attempt to rearrange the hierarchy.
Exhibitors: David Eisl, Marta Fišerová Cwiklinski, Gosztola Kitti – Pálinkás Bence György, Nona Inescu, Kárándi Mónika, Koleszár Stella, Máté Dániel, Mihályi Barbara, Uriel Orlow, Sergio Rojas Chaves