Gina van der Ploeg

Weaving Layers: Knowing where to begin | OPEN FIELDS - Art and Agriculture

22.07. - 23.07.2022

Gina van der Ploeg, Working on the project „Of the Plough“, Weiz 2022 / Photo: Gina van der Ploeg

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Date

22.07. - 23.07.2022

Location

Art in Public Space

Meeting point

Biohof Loderhof, Hofstraße 5, 8160 Weiz

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Event

Opening of the project Weaving Layers: Knowing where to begin by Gina van der Ploeg in Weiz in the context of OPEN FIELDS – Art and Agriculture.

OPEN FIELDS - Art and Agriculture

With the project OPEN FIELDS the Institute for Art in Public Space Styria combines the realms of art and agriculture. It includes 12 sub-projects by various international artists and art collectives and just as many Styrian farms.

Gina van der Ploeg

Weaving Layers: Knowing where to begin

Through the exchange and exploration of new knowledge, the sculptor, textile artist and farmer Gina van der Ploeg from Cape Town, South Africa experienced the basic processes of multifaceted and small-scale farming with spelt and buckwheat cultivation, nut groves and other rare crops such as fennel, poppy, flax, as well as honey or damask roses while living closely together, cooking and eating with the Breininger family from Weiz. She created a multi-layered, open result that took agricultural as well as intellectual work into consideration and related them to each other. This yielded fabrics made from found natural materials, photographs, architecture, conversations and an immersive cinematic installation experience intensively perceived with all the senses.