Between Us and Nature #51 - A leaf is a platter of pigment...

Hosted by: Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky and Sina Ribak
Where: Kunstraum Kreuzberg, I only work with lost and found, in collaboration with Goldrausch Registration required via email: office@goldrausch.org

“A leaf is a platter of pigment strung with vascular lace”

The reading session will start at 4:30 pm with a special tasting: Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky offers sorbet made freshly from beech leaves which she collected in a forest at the northern fringe of Berlin. Beech-Leaf Sorbet (2024) is part of Vernal Unfolding, the project presented in the Goldrausch exhibition, which features Kovacovsky’s work with beech leaves (Fagus sylvatica). The reading session will start after this sensorial introduction.

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The extinction of both known and unknown species is a terrible loss. Attuning our collective reading practice to the Goldrausch 2024 exhibition, I only work with lost and found, we turn to the worldmaking of plants. In an ongoing cycle of change the elements of sunlight, air, and water never get lost but are transformed into new forms of life. Inspired by geobiochemist Hope Jahren, we gather to shine a light on the alchemy of photosynthesis and to find relationships and knowledge. She reminds us that “a leaf is a platter of pigment strung with vascular lace” (1).

We invite you to join us as we explore this life-giving process, where nothing is truly new but constantly transformed.

Between Us and Nature is an ongoing reading club that chooses texts related to natural sciences, art, anthropology, postcolonialism and the (post)anthropocene from a eco-feminist perspective. Attendees read passages together out loud, and share experiences and thoughts about the nature they live in. Looking beyond disciplines, the group creates a space to learn from and with bacteria, algae, fungi, soil and multinaturalist narratives.

The reading club is hosted by artist Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky and researcher for ecologies and the arts Sina Ribak.

Admission is free!
Language English

(1) Hope Jahren, Lab Girl - A story of trees, science and love, Fleet, UK, 2016.