Opportunistic Plantscape: Composting Feral Topographies

in partial fulfilment of a Master of Arts in Fine Art

31 January - 11 February 2022

Opportunistic Plantscape: Composting Feral Topographies explores vegetal relations in the urban layout and gestures towards plant potentials to expand a more-than-human perception. Over the duration of the exhibition Makandal will continue to work in the opportunistic plantscape set up at The Point of Order as a “living studio / greenhouse / garden”, playing with material and formal pairings, juxtapositions and gradual composting from one state into another as chance exchanges, contaminations and conversations are encouraged to emerge and culminate into entropy. The exhibition features a variety of vegetal sculpture, drawing, photography and installation that together create an immersive plantscape that invites one to ask, what constitutes vegetal being?

There will be a couple of opportunities to join the artist in the space on a walkabouts, to experience and contribute to the plantscape. Visitors are encouraged to bring a plant or material offering to add to the plantscape and may also bring a vessel to collect some compost to take away with them.

WALKABOUTS:

Thursday 3rd February 2pm

Saturday, 5TH February 11am

Tuesday, 8th February 1pm 

Photography by Io Makandal and Reshma Chhiba