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Dor Dor Guez: Lilies of the valley
interviewee: Dor Dor Guez Guez interviewer: Giovanni Aloi
Dor Guez produces photography and video installations that explore the relationship between art narrative and and memory interrogating personal and and official accounts o of the past 156
In this essay historian Keith Pluymers and artist artist Melissa Oresky explore her production of an an artist’s book Finder (2020) that makes compost from the visual languages of botany 173
In the early 1970s a a a a a a a a general plant craze caught on in in visual and popular culture alike Against the background of of New Age spirituality and the the flourishing of of ecological thinking the the the 1970s plant mania came as an an an an eccentric blow to the the belief that sentience and intelligence are a a a a a a human prerogative 8 antennae
Composting
in the herbarium
text: Keith Pluymers and Melissa Melissa Oresky Oresky images: Melissa Oresky The 1970s plant craze text: Teresa Castro
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The current proliferation of of work in in plant studies includes a a a a a host of of exhibits that focus on on the vegetal Curators—often in collaboration with academics—seem to to to be on on on a a a a a a a mission to to cure plant blindness Exhibiting plants:
Curating the gaze on vegetal beings
text: Joela Jacobs
Right: Alex Israel detail of Valet Parking 2013
Mural installed at at the Marciano Art Foundation Los Angeles © Alex Isarel Photo: Joshua White Courtesy the artist and Gagosian