ELEONORA EDREVA
Projects:
re-
inearth/unearth
At each doorway,
Yelling Pillow
Cradle to grave
re-patterning slowly
The sound that surrounds
Once upon a future
A Garden...
Windy Season
Eau Doom
Video Work
Writing
About
Substack
I curated a series of events at A Garden…, an outdoor experimental art garden at the Albuquerque Museum. The garden space is activated each year by a group of Art & Ecology students, of which I was part for the 2021 growing season. The theme that we decided on was The Living Room, with the intention to create a space of rest and refuge, inviting visitors of the museum and passersby to sit and spend time in. We planted a mix of medicinal, edible, and dye plants as well as designed a series of hay bale furniture with coverings of woven wool felt strips. I was the summer caretaker to the garden, tending to the space and its plants throughout the season, and curating an event series to activate the garden throughout the month of August.
The events consisted of three workshops as well as a one-night outdoor exhibition in the garden. The three events were a plant walk, a circus workshop, and a storytelling workshop, each of which was done in partnership with a local culture worker or organization working with the theme of healing through embodied connection to plants. For the exhibition, Permission to rest, I invited and worked with a group of MFA students from the University of New Mexico to create site-specific works responding to the garden and its plants.