The Future Is a Purple Tree (Sina Hensel)
Collective Gestures (Inês Neto dos Santos)
We warmly invite you to the final presentations/work-in-progress/gatherings for two research projects from the Art & Ecology research group at the Wintertuin at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.
In this exhibition, colour and fermentation meet as parallel gestures of belonging and adaptation.
The Future Is a Purple Tree traces how plants protect themselves through pigment – a more-than-human gesture that offers ways to see and sense environmental shifts and local resilience.
Collective Gestures follows the slow work of fermentation, where microbes, textiles and human stories travel together across borders and time. Brought into dialogue, these projects invite attention to processes that sustain life beyond the human, and that might inform more grounded ways of living with the land- and waterscapes that we call our home.
OPENING: Thursday 13 November, 18:00 - 21:00, with reading by Inês Neto dos Santos, followed by a conversation among Sina Hensel, Inês Neto dos Santos and Roel Arkesteijn.
FINISSAGE: Thursday 20 November, 17:00 - 19:00, with a session by the Art & Ecology Reading Group (open to everyone).
(image: left, Inês Neto dos Santos & right, Sina Hensel)