Mavuke’s Trial and Other Plant Stories at The Showroom
South Africa
The Showroom in London, presents a major new commission by Swiss artist Uriel Orlow, which looks to the botanical world as a stage for politics at large through film, photography, installation and sound.
Working from the dual vantage points of South Africa and Europe, the project considers plants as both witnesses and actors in history, and as dynamic agents – linking nature and humans, rural and cosmopolitan medicine, tradition and modernity – across different geographies, histories and systems of knowledge, with a variety of curative, spiritual and economic powers.
