Last weekend of the exhibition "Desert Garden"

DESERT GARDEN

Utstillingen er forlenget med helgen 14 og 15 mars.
Finissage 14 mars, med salong 3, og foredrag med botaniker Vincent Manzanilla, kl 14 00.

Lettere servering.

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“Prickly pear, Joshua Tree, Buffalo gourd, Candelilla, Honey locust, Tree tobacco, Anacua, Cholla, Agave, Lechuguilla, Creosote Buch, … I can’t guarantee that all these herbs presented here have the medicinal value or use which is claimed for them.

But one thing is certain, these properties are unknown to the average modern individual; and the authentic compilation of knowledge which has been kept secret by Indians and Mexicans is a valuable contribution to our intellectual heritage.

When I start getting the flu, I don’t monkey with it. I go to bed. I take antibiotics and antihistamines. I drink orange juice copiously. I have a fever thermometer; I keep a chart of my temperature: I keep warm, and I am usually in bed for three or four days until the fever begins to break.

When my Mexican employee starts to get flu, he takes a concoction of herbs and keeps right on working; and in 7 years he hasn’t missed a day.

My ranch at Temecula is bounded on two sides by an Indian reservation, and I became acquainted with the Indians and their medicine and saw some very remarkable cures made by the use of herbs. So it was only natural to start studying and collecting these herbs, and then writing about them.

Much of this knowledge is rapidly disappearing from human ken – which is a shame, because the people who have this knowledge are getting old, and won’t be with us forever.” ) *)

I use desert landscapes as a physical and mental space of reflexion. A ground in constant metamorphosis that I consider being an archive of all beginnings, times and action. Sahara, Chihuahua or Gobi share the same definition of dry and empty lands. It is in these “waste” and “abandoned” lands that I collect clues and attempt linking it to my practice, which consists of performance, texts, sound and diverse mediums.

Since 2012, I have started collecting information on desert plants and their potential use by Native people, desert inhabitants and migrants. Desert Garden is the first materialization of this project. The result is a collection of desert seeds and plants from which the knowledge remains incomplete.

Biography:
Hanan Benammar lives and works in Oslo. She studied at the Art Academy of Oslo and the Dutch Art Institute (Arnhem, the Netherlands). She will have One way to a desert’s solo exhibition at House of Foundation (Moss) in November 2015, in which the adventures of two Lonely Travelers sent for a one way trip to a desert will be narrated.
Desert Garden is supported by the Norwegian Art Council and Fond For Lyd og Bilde.
www.onewaytoadesert.com

  • Modified Foreword by Erle Stanley Gardner about “Desert Plants and People” written by Sam Hicks in 1966
    • “Many Native Americans come to our shop to ask information on the seeds we are collecting and selling. It seems like the knowledge around their use has completely disappeared from their common knowledge and daily life.” Extract from a discussion with a gardener and desert seed seller, Prescott (USA), 2013

Åpningstider:
Lørdag–søndag 12–16

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