[oberlist] invitation to artist talk and to see exhibition Gradna Urzica-Nettle Garden

[Татьяна Федорова]

пн, 28 июл. 2025 г. в 12:41, Татьяна Федорова <tfiodorova at gmail.com>:

> Dear friends and colleagues,
> I want to invite you to see the exhibition Gradna Urzica-Nettle Garden.
>
> *Location:* Plai Gallery
> *Period of the exhibition:* July 16 – August 1, 2025, working hours:
> 12.00-20.00
>
>  meeting day is Tuesday, July 29, PLAI Gallery
> șezătoare (gathering): 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
> artist talk, guided tour: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
>
> *Admission to the exhibition is free.*
>
> *Plai Gallery* invites you to the exhibition «*Gradina Urzică*» by
> Tatiana Fiodorova-Lefter – an artistic investigation into the sublime, yet
> underestimated connection between humans and nature, set against the
> background of rapid urban and technological transformation.
>
> The project emphasizes the need to rethink this relationship, one that has
> been eroded by the pressures of urbanization and digital expansion.
>
> At the heart of the research are plants and soil, viewed as non-human
> entities capable of carrying cultural and historical memory, as well as
> their own traditions. Through interaction with them, new perspectives
> emerge on how to understand both the past and the present within the
> context of political and social change.
>
> «*Gradina Urzică*» invites us to see nature not as a mere backdrop to
> human history, but as an equal participant in political and social
> imagination — a force with its own voice, memory, and rhythm.
>
> Inspired by fragments from personal memory, the artist traces a path
> through layers of individual and collective experience — from a city park
> in Chișinău, to her grandmother’s rural home, in her search for nettles.
> She constructs a landscape of memory in which images, forms, and gestures
> become intuitive practices of healing.
>
> This journey is an attempt to restore lost rhythms and bodily sensations,
> forgotten in the tears between natural cycles and the logic of contemporary
> civilization.
>
> Since 2008, the work of Tatiana Fiodorova-Lefter has been exhibited in
> solo and group shows, as well as, festivals across Europe and beyond.
>
> In 2023, she was awarded a prestigious art and theory fellowship for her
> project «*In Ruins / In Search of Identity»*, which was presented in the
> group exhibition «*The Secret Life of Plants and Trees»* at
> *KUNSTPAVILLON* (Innsbruck, Austria).
>
> «*Gradina Urzică*» was first presented in March 2025 at the «*Green and
> Just Transition Summit»* in Chișinău and was supported and funded by the *Danish
> Cultural Foundation*.
>
> The project is presented as a multimedia installation, and brings together
> works created in various techniques — from painting and graphic art to
> textilе, ceramics, and experimental media.
>
>
> https://artploshadka.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/galeria-plai-va-invita-la-expozitia-gradinaurzica-a-artistei-tatiana-fiodorova-lefter-plai-gallery-invites-you-to-the-exhibition-gradina-urzica-by-tatiana-fiodorova/
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