19/10/2025
Guided Tour with Maksud Ali Mondal in English
Soil and Friends
- We invite you to join the artist Maksud Ali Mondal for a guided tour of the exhibition Soil and Friends.
- Maksud Ali Mondal is a visual artist from India. His artistic practice focuses on exploring the relationships between humans, other organisms, and the natural environment. In his work, he employs sculpture, installations, painting, and photography to create microcosms in which he observes biological processes such as fermentation, decomposition, and the growth of microorganisms. Maksud addresses topics related to ecology, material transformation, and the coexistence of different forms of life, using both organic materials and everyday objects.
- Soil and Friends is an interdisciplinary art and research project that combines art and ecology. It encompasses a group exhibition, educational and performative programmes, artist residencies, and activities in public spaces. The project’s narrative framework revolves around human relationships with the earth as terrain, soil, and ground; the intertwined histories of plants, humans, and non-human beings; different ways of coexisting with and experiencing the world; and points of intersection between art and practices of cultivating and caring for the land.
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