Seasons as Rhythms Guiding my Artistic Practice

Application summary

During my grant period I will further develop my interdisciplinary practice, which transcends the boundaries of traditional art forms by working with food within its socio-political, cultural, and ecological dimensions. Using a feminist and decolonial approach, my work explores different forms of enacting care, incorporating embodied knowledge—such as walking, foraging, and cooking—and fostering togetherness in the context of environmental imbalances. My artistic practice is guided by the seasons, as I believe we are part of these rhythms—cycles of the sun and moon—which teach us that there is a time for everything: a time for building, producing, gathering, paying attention, being “slow and lazy,” and reflecting. My project includes the creation of an Experimental Kitchen Studio to develop my practice and artworks for upcoming exhibitions—a solo exhibition at Titanik Gallery and a group exhibition, Everlasting Soup Salon, at Sinne Gallery. Additionally, I will present a series of performances—Dormancy, Reseeding, Resistance at Light-Harvesting Complex—and participate in an event at Ceremonies festival at Oksasenkatu 11 Gallery. Motivated by the processes of sharing, learning, and unlearning, I will also focus on the first-phase development of an experimental project titled Entangled Ecologies—an online archive and inquiry into sharing local and edible plant knowledge in urban and forest ecologies in Uusimaa. Furthermore, I will launch a seasonal collaborative project, Foraged Feast: A Multi-Species Gathering, which aims to cook with the landscapes and involve human and more-than-human collaborations, exploring the processes of transforming and being transformed.