Anne Reijniers and Eline De Clercq

Gesamthof / A Lesbian Garden

KIEMKRACHT

Sat 28.02

12:00 - 20:00

Studio Groot

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A short filmic tour through a lesbian garden where ecology, identity, and feminist history intertwine.

This short film talks about the 'Gesamthof / A lesbian garden', an art - nature project in Antwerp between the walls of an old monastery. In this audiovisual time document, we follow a guided tour by Eline De Clercq, the driving force of the garden project. The garden provides an entry point to talk about diverse topics such as colonialism in botany, the ambiguity of naming, the social expectations of women and the search for a lesbian identity. This garden is inspired by the books of ecofeminists and other writers, like Donna Haraway, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jamaica Kincaid, Virginia Woolf and many others.

Anne Reijniers and Eline De Clercq are both artists and gardeners living in Antwerp. Anne Reijniers is part of the filmmakers collective 'Collectif Faire-Part' and participated in MORPHO's development residency in 2021, situated next to the garden. Eline De Clercq is a painter and rents a studio, also next to the garden.

This event is included in your Kiemkracht day ticket.

This film is played in a loop with Notes on Encountering.

“The temporary nature of the garden, the residents and the project, gives this short film an urgency. We don't know how long we can stay at this location, also climate change is happening now, both makes us feel like we have to keep working at a better understanding of what ecology means in a multilayered compost.”

Eline De Clercq