Healing Plants for Hurt Landscapes

Laurence Aëgerter, artist

born 1972

Healing Plants for Hurt Landscapes, 2015

Where object was made: France

Material/technique: offset lithograph

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 36 x 29.5 x 0.5 cm 2017.0052.a closed
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 14 3/16 x 11 5/8 x 0 3/16 in
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 36 x 58.7 x 0.5 cm 2017.0052.a opened
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 14 3/16 x 23 1/8 x 0 3/16 in
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 36.4 x 30.1 x 0.8 cm 2017.0052.b closed
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 14 5/16 x 11 7/8 x 0 5/16 in
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 36.4 x 60 x 0.8 cm 2017.0052.b opened
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 14 5/16 x 23 5/8 x 0 5/16 in

Credit line: Anonymous gift

Accession number: 2017.0052.a,b

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Healing Plants for Hurt Landscapes is an extension of Aëgerter’s previous project, Herbarium Cataplasma, created in the neighborhood of Oldegalileën-Bloemenbuurt in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. As explained on the artist’s website:

“Aëgerter led a careful reconstruction of the plan of the medicinal garden of the medieval Abbey of Saint Gall on an unused plot of land in Leeuwarden, which was once part of a convent. This project was realized in collaboration with the local residents who Aëgerter then invited to partake in a symbolic healing ritual. Photographs of ruined landscapes from the previous century were treated with the medicinal plants, each one with the appropriate antidote found in the library or through the residents’ own experience (e.g. ginger against pain in burns). The 100 photographs were selected by searching Google for news photographs of a diversity of disasters in different parts of the world. Aëgerter took photographs of these landscapes to then be healed. Through this process, plants and landscapes merged into a new image.”