"What happens when humans and plants enter a relationship of mutual transformation and care?

 

Exploring the intimate connection her father has with his garden, Joana Viveiros draws attention to the real, tactile, felt dimension of a relationship defined by the acts of planting, nurturing and harvesting. The gardener transforms the garden, and as the fruits are eaten, they nourish the gardener (and his family), transforming him from the inside out. In Feeding Ground (2024), banana stems are transformed into paper, the colour and texture of which resembles the soil to which it will eventually return." - Text by Jule Kurbjeweit