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(Archive) Soils: De grond van ons bestaan

Group exhibition Soils explores a renewed connection with our soil.

This project was part of DDW 2024
Build up of Soils (2024) — © Nick Bookelaar

How can we re-ground ourselves in our environment? And how does that help us reconnect with each other? The group exhibition Soils addresses these questions. International artists, designers, farmers and activists work towards more empathy for our soils.

Mankind and soil

Soils focuses on the human relationship with soils. A relationship that is often complicated, as nation-states we know as Australia, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico and the Netherlands show. For the artists, these names are less relevant. Rather, they seek expression based on kinship and grounded knowledge, as is done by the Wurundjeri land, the Iku peoples' guarded Chundwa (Heart of the World), the Rangan Paser Adat territories, Sinanché in Mayan Yucatán and Eindhoven in North Brabant.

Soils (2024) — © Nick Bookelaar

Soils (2024) — © Peter Cox