Billions of Microorganisms Inhabit and Vitalize a Gram of Soil, 2025
Folded poster (watercolor paintings on photographic background) commissioned as Artist cover for the publication "Hills of Desires. Practices of Rural Imagination", published by Viaindustriae Publishing, Foligno, Umbria, Italy, 2025.
Dimensions of the unfolded poster 57x46 cm
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Soil microorganisms weave life into the earth, keeping it breathing, fertile, and alive. When we lie upon the grass, we are no longer separate – we are touching a hidden world, sharing space with billions of quiet, ancient beings. In that nearness, let us pause, and gently celebrate their small, sacred existence.
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The publication Hill of Desires is a collective publishing device that engages with contemporary art as a situated practice rooted in European peripheral and inland territories. It is a exercise in imagination that embraces rurality as a space of counter-narration, one capable of generating political ecologies, affective infrastructures and non-institutional forms of knowledge, offering a critical contribution to the redefinition of cultural geographies and curatorial paradigms beyond the logic of the event.
The book is offered with 3 different Artist's covers by Maria Thereza Alves, Jumana Manna, and Bianca Schröder.
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