WhereCanWeGo Logo

The Land Sings Back

Wed 24 Sep 25
Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm

Free admission, open to all Drawing Room, Unit 1b New Tannery Way Bermondsey SE1 5WS ‘The land knows you, even when you are lost.’ Robin Wall Kimmerer, Potawatomi botanist and author The Land Sings Back reimagines our relationship to our breathing planet through the work of thirteen artists with ancestries across South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Engaging with these cultural vocabularies through a lens of environmental justice, the exhibition approaches drawing as an active agent of social history, Indigenous knowledge and ecofeminist philosophy, rather than as a tool of illustration, classification and conquest. Exposing entanglements between the human-vegetal-animal, the works explore how botanical consciousness can reshape relationships among multitudinous life-forms, making room for regeneration amidst indebtedness, infrastructural collapse and neocolonial inheritance. The Land Sings Back encourages a connection with ancestral wisdom, reciprocal rather than extractive relationships with land. Participating artists include Lado Bai, Shiraz Bayjoo, Lavkant Chaudhary, Jasmine Nilani Joseph, Manjot Kaur, Otobong Nkanga, Rupaneethan Pakkiyarajah, Joydeb Roaja, Anupam Roy, Anushka Rustomji, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, U.Arulraj and Charmaine Watkiss. The exhibition is curated by Natasha Ginwala, Artistic Director of Colomboscope, co-curator of Sharjah Biennial 16 and one of Frieze’s Five Curators to Watch in 2025. It is produced as a collaboration between Colomboscope, Sri Lanka and Drawing Room... READ MORE>

Send a message to the Organiser
 * = required.
* Your Name
* Your Email
  Organisation 
  Telephone
* Message
    
WhereCanWeGo Ltd will pass on this message for you, but please understand that is as far as our responsibilities go.

Back to Event Page