COS REBOLLO, Teresa; ESCHE, Charles; RAFFY, Victoire (eds.)
Soils

Soils focuses on the human relationship with soils. This relationship is often complicated, as the nation-states of Australia, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico and the Netherlands show. For the artists, however, these names are less important. They prefer to focus on connections and local knowledge, as experienced on Wurundjeri land, the Chundwa (Heart of the World) protected by the Iku peoples, the Rangan Paser Adat areas, Sinanché in Mayan Yucatán and Eindhoven in North Brabant. How do we reconnect with our soil and with each other?

This is what international, national and local artists, designers, farmers and activists answer in the exhibition Soils at the Van Abbemuseum; in the eponymous publication, the readers are taken through the different phases of the project, through photos of the construction process, texts by the curators and artists (Teresa Cos Rebollo, Zena Cumpston, Charles Esche, Inez Dekker, Wapke Feenstra, Victoria Lynn, Rolando Vázquez). [publishers’ note]

Soils is a collaboration between the Van Abbemuseum, the TarraWarra Museum of Art, and Struggles for Sovereignty.

Published by Van Abbemuseum, 2024
Design by David Bennewith and Sandra Kassenaar
Exhibition Catalogues / Ecology / Indigenous Peoples