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Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, Terrarium
Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, Canada
11 June —
29 August 2022
"Just because we humans can’t hear them doesn’t mean plants don’t howl." —Natalie Angier, 2009
What do plants have to say about their lives under colonial capitalism? In the exhibition Terrarium, artistic partners Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux seek answers to this question in the electrochemical signals of plants living in habitats that human intervention has profoundly altered. Translating these signals into sounds and images, their work considers the impossibility of truly communicating with plants, while nonetheless centering their perspectives through practices of listening.
A Wardian Case, the four-channel video installation at the heart of the exhibition, was made after Bellamy and Fauteux visited Kawau Island, Aotearoa New Zealand, and recorded the electrochemical signals of plants living there. In the mid-nineteenth century, copper mines destabilized the ecology of this island, which was then irreversibly changed when Sir George Grey acquired it in 1860.
"Just because we humans can’t hear them doesn’t mean plants don’t howl." —Natalie Angier, 2009
What do plants have to say about their lives under colonial capitalism? In the exhibition Terrarium, artistic partners Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux seek answers to this question in the electrochemical signals of plants living in habitats that human intervention has profoundly altered. Translating these signals into sounds and images, their work considers the impossibility of truly communicating with plants, while nonetheless centering their perspectives through practices of listening.
A Wardian Case, the four-channel video installation at the heart of the exhibition, was made after Bellamy and Fauteux visited Kawau Island, Aotearoa New Zealand, and recorded the electrochemical signals of plants living there. In the mid-nineteenth century, copper mines destabilized the ecology of this island, which was then irreversibly changed when Sir George Grey acquired it in 1860.