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What can grow in the ruins of the Plantation ?
๐ง๐ผ๐ผ๐น๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐๐-๐ฃ๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป delves into the speculative possibilities of a Post-Plantation society in La Rรฉunion. Discarded machetes, once instruments of labour subjugation, are repurposed into everyday tools offering alternative gestures to the land.
The artefacts serve as both archives of a violent past and devices for recalling possible futures.
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fabricator: Sebastian Quijada link
photos: Peter Cox, courtesy of the Van Abbemuseum
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