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Art.nr: 9789197884389
Nominerad till Svenska Fotobokspriset 2017 med motiveringen:
Mari Lagerquist skapar en intressant korrespondens mellan en generös formgivning och den lilla människans historia.
Ett herbarium i Kairo, en kolonilott i Göteborg, båda samlade i en bok. Med bilder och text knyts dessa platser samman, samtidigt som skillnaderna blir tydliga. Boken har sin utgångspunkt i den svenska botanisten Vivi Täckholms arbete. Täckholm valde Kairo som sin hemstad och arbetade i en botanisk tradition med mycket gamla anor. Dialogen fortsätter vidare i bokens uppbyggnad, där det engelska språket råder i ett tyskt pappersformat men i en arabisk struktur.
“Cannot a plant that comes from somewhere else become native with time? I asked. She gave me a perplexed look, not understanding me at all.”
A herbarium in Cairo, an allotment in Gothenburg, collected in one book. A desire to belong, to demand a place, and to organize space according to ones own tradition. Image and text tie the places together. The Swedish botanist Vivi Täckholm (born 1989) developed the Faculty of Botany at Cairo University. She and her colleagues collected, ordered, classified and cataloged plants. Their work followed Carl von Linné’s Species Plantarum which followed the belief that it was possible to determine, systematize, and catalogue the surrounding world. Taking controll of the world by taking controll of knowledge. An ongoing imperialistic project. Humans trying to control nature. Even a book is part of a system of knowledge.
Special hand bound edition with original artwork by Mari Lagerqvist available.
Mari Lagerquist skapar en intressant korrespondens mellan en generös formgivning och den lilla människans historia.
Ett herbarium i Kairo, en kolonilott i Göteborg, båda samlade i en bok. Med bilder och text knyts dessa platser samman, samtidigt som skillnaderna blir tydliga. Boken har sin utgångspunkt i den svenska botanisten Vivi Täckholms arbete. Täckholm valde Kairo som sin hemstad och arbetade i en botanisk tradition med mycket gamla anor. Dialogen fortsätter vidare i bokens uppbyggnad, där det engelska språket råder i ett tyskt pappersformat men i en arabisk struktur.
“Cannot a plant that comes from somewhere else become native with time? I asked. She gave me a perplexed look, not understanding me at all.”
A herbarium in Cairo, an allotment in Gothenburg, collected in one book. A desire to belong, to demand a place, and to organize space according to ones own tradition. Image and text tie the places together. The Swedish botanist Vivi Täckholm (born 1989) developed the Faculty of Botany at Cairo University. She and her colleagues collected, ordered, classified and cataloged plants. Their work followed Carl von Linné’s Species Plantarum which followed the belief that it was possible to determine, systematize, and catalogue the surrounding world. Taking controll of the world by taking controll of knowledge. An ongoing imperialistic project. Humans trying to control nature. Even a book is part of a system of knowledge.
Special hand bound edition with original artwork by Mari Lagerqvist available.