Art Worker
RMA Cultural Analysis UvA
camilademussy@gmail.com
+31 659361859
Art Worker
RMA Cultural Analysis UvA
camilademussy@gmail.com
+31 659361859
Curator
2024
The land and the ancestry bloodline in which we are born, determine today the horizon and border of opportunities, the way we can move through the globe and be received by different modern nations. As Dimitri Kochenov writes, ‘inequalities are spatialized’. Soil and bloodlines are intertwined by geopolitics and delineate frontiers of exclusion and inclusion around the globe.
Under the category of citizenship the bind between bloodline and soil becomes ‘natural’, reflecting generations of lineage homogeneity and territorial permanence. Confronting a ‘natural’, or ‘genuine link’ with a territory -as legal vocabulary states-, other entanglements between blood and soil become illegitimate and rejected. For whom does earth become blood? Who is elegible for citizenship? Which criteria operate and who impose them? How do life experiences travel the blood line beyond they territory? And how do life experiences with land exceed this system?
Solis & Sanguinis: When does earth become blood? Explores this last questions through diverse narratives and angles aiming to shed light on unproblematized categories and trouble ‘natural’ compromises between blood and territories. The show convenes artistic practices that question, resist and uncover the arbitrariness and racialization with which politics of citizenship operate over history, exposing fractures, mixtures and opacities within the ‘natural’ and recognizing different entanglements between soil and blood that exceed the ones nation-state legal systems can offer.