Month: June 2022

The Unboxing Project at Sainte Croix de Mareuil

A cardboard box covered in postal tape and labels sits on a worn wooden floor.
Un-boxing at Plas Bodfa (Wales) photo from Julie Upmeyer

It's been interesting to follow the Un-boxing project on its travels so far. Gudrun Filipska's Arts Territory Exchange creation, a box of contributions from artists all over the world, has been making its way slowly from one exhibition space to another, and as an artist participant, I get to witness the remarks of curators along the journey. So here I link you through to curator Jane Linden's essay from La Vieille Closerie, Sainte-Croix-de-Mareuil in Aquitaine: "Curatorial Reflections on Un-boxing at Sainte-Croix-de-Mareuil by Jane Linden". 

Contents of the Unboxing box lay neatly arranged on the worn wooden floor: The box, some packing plastic, and 34 items, most of which look like parcels or envelopes.
process of Un-boxing at Plas Bodfa photo from Julie Upmeyer


Jane has also posted some photos from the box's visit to France on her instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lavieillecloserie/

A raw-edged piece of handmade paper lies folded on green-carpeted stairs. There are rotted-leaf prints on the paper, and text written between them. The text says: What is that?! I wonder what the summer will look like this year. Which streams and rivers will dry up? Which species will go extinct? Which territories will burn up in this year's storms, droughts, and floods, and which territories will burn up in this year's fires? I'm sending you this letter through time and across the surface of our planet, as a reminder of the time when leaves... (The rest of the text is at too steep of an angle to decipher.)
part of my own contribution to Un-boxing, displayed at Plas Bodfa photo from Julie Upmeyer