INFRARED Residency
We present to you Era Ramojan and her project Poison and Remedy, which she will develop during her stay at Rezidenca 17.
POISON AND REMEDY
Oscillating between poison and medicine, plants reconcile the dualities. As fragile and powerful agents in our ecosystems, they have the potential for resilience, intelligence and knowledge beyond human understanding. As the discourse around plant intelligence and habitat destruction has spread across all disciplines, Era aims to create an experimental space that weaves together different forms of knowledge. Rising against the growing inequality of wealth and the consolidation of resources, it poses the question of how we can shape our world into reciprocity, “mutual aid” and “intentional community”. It simultaneously delves deep into the need for repair, healing and recognition as we confront the historical roots of modern inequality. The herbarium focuses on sensual, sensual, intimate and effective ways of relating to nature/environment, and explores what kind of relationships with plants are possible. How we can work to catalyze healing of relationships with self, family, ancestors, community and land, applying traditional plant knowledge derived from ethnobotanical discoveries and enabling the transfer of power and control so that resources can flow towards justice racial, environmental and economic. The work speculates on the possibilities of going beyond the sonic view of nature, dissolving the binaries of poison/medicine, life/death, organic/inorganic. To promote in the human body and its sensorium an aesthetic-affective openness to plants. An attentive encounter between bodies and identities.
Who is Era?
Era Ramoja (2001), born in Gjakova, is a researcher in the field of ecology. Her practice is multidisciplinary, primarily focused on experimental photography using biological, microscopic and laboratory scientific processes and practices, thus actively challenging the apparent binaries of art and science. Her photographs are a practice and process of recollection, of being a keen observer and symbol of man’s connection with the environment. These photographs were part of the catalog/book of the Kosovo Pavilion at the 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice. Mainly, her work moves in the fields of ecology, ethnobotany, aiming to restore the balance between human culture and nature, based on awareness of the connections and mutual interdependencies of all phenomena – physical, biological, social and cultural, and embraces the construction of a community as a way to foster ecological wisdom. With an interest in plants and the microscopic world, it is devoted to the “living” that is more than human and investigates the past from the perspective of marginalized communities. In the last two years, Era has attended various classes in the field of multimedia such as experimental filmmaking, environmental photojournalism, animation, etc.
