SB13 en Sharjah
10 marzo - 12 junio 2017. Curadora: Christine Tohmé. Exposiciones, programas, proyectos de 73 participantes en Sharjah.
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What Plants Were Called Before They Had a Name, 2016
Audio and library
22:40 min
Commissioned by The Showroom, London
Communal Herbal Knowledge, 2016
Publication of four booklets/posters
105 x 148 cm
Reproduced by Sharjah Art Foundation
One of the Sharjah Biennial 2017 Prizes
Venue: Al Hamriyah Studios
Known for his research-driven projects that combine video, photography, drawing and sound, Uriel Orlow’s practice examines the transgressions of knowledge systems and the new forms of knowing they produce. Orlow’s Theatrum Botanicum (2016) is a multi-component project that envisions the botanical world as both witness to and actor in the enduring legacy of settler colonialism in South Africa.
What Plants Were Called Before They Had a Name (2016–17) is a plant dictionary created from nine indigenous South African languages. Conceived as a sound installation, the work serves as a repository of local knowledge, originally passed down through oral tradition but displaced by European writing and nomenclature.
(From the SB13 Guidebook)
See also his works at
Calligraphy Museum
* 1973 Zürich, Switzerland. Lives there and in London, UK.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
10 marzo - 12 junio 2017. Curadora: Christine Tohmé. Exposiciones, programas, proyectos de 73 participantes en Sharjah.