In the Underbelly of a Kernel

Rooted in lens-based media, Eve Tagny’s multidisciplinary practice interlaces performance, writing, and research into spatial installations that reflect narratives of sorrow, resilience, and fortitude. She reads landscapes as witnesses of individual and collective disruptions, yet reveals their concealed potential for remembrance and regeneration. Drawn to the materials, forms, and cycles of nature, Tagny’s work questions what a relationship to nature might look like beyond the dominant Western idea of it, which reduces it to an object of careless exploitation and scientific scrutiny. In her most comprehensive presentation to date, Tagny continues her exploration of the entanglements between colonialism, botanical science, and the commodification of nature and the body, unveiling a site-specific installation featuring newly commissioned video works.