05.08.2025-07.12.2025
The Herbarium of Memory
Laura De Bernardi, Gergana Mantscheva, Laura Sánchez Filomeno
The exhibition The Herbarium of Memory: Laura De Bernardi, Gergana Mantscheva, Laura Sánchez Filomeno presents paintings, drawings, objects and installations by three Swiss and international women artists whose artistic practices are united by a deeply introspective approach to personal and collective identity. Employing real seeds and dried plant specimens as well as embroidered, hand-stitched or painted plants and rhizomes, each one of these artists engages with the concept and epistemological meaning of the ‘herbarium’ to offer three different yet complementary artistic statements about life and memory.
On the occasion of the exhibition The Herbarium of Memory at Espace Muraille, the works by Laura De Bernardi, Gergana Mantscheva and Laura Sánchez Filomeno are presented as if they were heterogeneous specimens borrowed from different herbaria for the purpose of comparing and investigating three geographically and culturally distinct yet related botanical collections.
Curated by Valentina Locatelli
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Gergana Mantscheva
Gräser, 2018, détail
Huile et acrylique sur toile