This week I will be concentrating on two ongoing projects. The first is the opening of an international exhibition project that has been in the works for two years, and I am putting the finishing touches on it. The exhibition is a large international group exhibition “Planetary Peasants” and it will be held at the Moritzburg Museum in Halle (https://planetarische-bauern.werkleitz.de/en). I was asked to participate in the exhibition project because of the long-running project “Eastern Sugar.” I designed and realized my first textile work “Crystallization Point” in a family textile manufactory in the Netherlands. It measures 3x2 meters and was made using the Jacquard technique. At the exhibition I will also present the “Eastern Sugar Archive” installation, as well as four new video interviews I made with people who used to work in the sugar industry in GDR before 1990. The main theme is to explore the effects of the fall of communism and German reunification on the current political and social situation in the eastern provinces of Germany. I worked with several experts on the videos, including Martina Slováková and Dóra Hushegyi Rudas, who are my regular collaborators in the production of videos. I received the invitation to participate in the exhibition in 2023, and the opening will take place on May 22.
The other project I am working on this week is a new publication entitled “Future Gardens,” which will be published jointly by Abacus+ Publishing and Čierne diery later in the first half of the year. The book is based on the installation “Floating Gardens” created for the Documenta exhibition in Kassel two years ago, with rich visual material and excellent texts by Eszter Lázár, Raluca Voinea, Florian Bellin-Harden, and two interviews. So, it's going to be an intense week.