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Working with Kurkuma, Turmeric roots, the holy color yellow. During my exhibit working period at Zone2Source i was working with sustainable printing techniques using kurkuma and plants from the surrounding Amstelpark that had medicinal historical meanings.

In Plantas Harmonias: connecting continents through medicinal and ritual plants, artist Farah Rahman guides visitors through her research process during her weekly working sessions, workshops, and expeditions in the park. The exhibition will thus become a place for presentation and fieldwork, with the Amstelpark as a laboratory for research into complex (post)colonial relationships between people and plants.

The artist as ethnobotanist Farah’s artistic research practice is similar to the work of an ethnobotanist, who analyses complex relationships between plants, people and cultures through field research. In doing so, Farah starts from her own family history in Suriname and India. She creates mutlisensorial works involving long-forgotten memories and political and spiritual relationships between people and plants. How can we reshape our relationship to plants—other than as food sources or decoration—by connecting to the complex cultural meanings in which humans and plants are always intertwined?

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Tonight at 21hs. the fantastic 🌿Farah Rahman✨ @fariatie will be performing one of my Mobile Exhibition Spaces at @pulchristudio in the frame of the Museum Night The Hague, Netherlands. ⚡Check it out⚡ #museumnachtdenhaag #pulchristudio #achagabriela #museumnight #museumnight #farahrahman #mondriaanfonds #denhaagkunstenaar #nederlandsekunst (at Pulchri Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUzhGryges2/?utm_medium=tumblr

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In ‘Symphony of spores’, my new expanded cinema work, I collected and fixated mushroom spores. Mainly the mushrooms were collected through intuitive fieldwork sessions in Amstelpark during my exhibit and working period in Zone2Source apr-jun 2023. During fieldwork sessions I sharpen my senses by looking, listening, feeling in a careful and meditative way. Connecting and attracted to plants, trees, mushrooms that have a historical, medicinal, edible character. This way of perceiving the landscape around me is rooted in personal healing work with plant medicines. In ‘Symphony of spores’, magnifications of real mushroom spores on glass slides can be seen as moving light projections (so come and experience it live ;) The projection is done with the use of analog slide projectors and slow turning shutterwheels. Fixating mushroom spores is also a determination method used by biologists. Tiny mushroom spore particles are always floating around us. They’re a part of our body and connect us to our surroundings. Thats how mushrooms spread themselves. They're part of a vast intelligent underground mycelium network that connects all plants/trees sending information to each other. It’s hard to see this mushroom particle release proces, it goes in a slow way, takes time and is difficult for the human eye to spot.

The work can be viewed at my solo exhibit Plantas Harmonias connecting continents through medicinal and ritual plants 23 April – 18 June 2023 Zone2Source , Glasshouse, Amstelpark, Amsterdam.

artscience #mushrooms #mushroomspores #fieldwork #intuitive #meditation #morchella # #ethnobotany #edibleplants #medicinalplants #healing #expandedcinema #zone2source #glasshouse #amstelpark #lightprojections #farahrahman #fariatie