“Follow the plants with Alevtina Kakhidze”
Workshop
In the frame of “Colonialism in camouflage”
With: Alevtina Kakhidze
September 24, 2023
Mudam – The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg
With the workshop Follow the Plants, Alevtina Kakhidze invites us to look into the plant world and see our surroundings from their perspective. The artist investigates the relationship between plants and humans and centers her research on stable plant systems such as steppe or prairie, as well as in so-called ‘invasive’ and ‘tender’ plants in relation to ecosystems, and in perennial species that promise to be a step forward in agriculture in the face of climate change. Follow the Plants is an indoor-outdoor event, which looks at the role of humans in shifting ecosystems. Having developed rebalancing strategies, for example through cooking and eating ‘invasive’ plants, Kakhidze invites us to reconsider the local ecosystem in Luxembourg, during a walk around the Park Dräi Eechelen next to Mudam.
Biographical notes
Alevtina Kakhidze (b. 1973) is a Ukrainian artist. She works predominantly in performance and drawing. Based in Muzychi, 26 kilometers from Kyiv, and having grown up in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, Kakhidze has experienced Ukraine’s abrupt and chaotic changes in that time, from the days of the USSR to the imbalanced environment after, including the undeclared war between Russia and Ukraine in 2014 and the recent brutal attack that started on 24 February 2022.