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an exhibition on seeds as archives

rese(e)ding worlds: seeds as living archives reflects on what is lost when seed is separated from the communities that have nurtured it under extractive agriculture. The exhibition foregrounds seed as a living archive of care, adaptation, and interdependence, holding histories that link humans with the more-than-human world. Attentive to agrarian inequities shaped by colonial and neo-imperial systems, the project invites relational thinking that recognises the knowledge that has always been held within smallholder communities. It resituates seed not as commodity, but as living inheritance embedded in labour, place, and continuity opening pathways toward reciprocity, collective care, and regenerative futures.

curatorial concept note

Marwa Arsanios – Artist, filmmaker, and researcher working in installation, performance, and moving images. Explores gender, urbanism, and industrialization. Lives between Berlin and Beirut.

Danish Kumar Gahlot – Visual artist working in painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation, and performance. Engages botanical materials, memory, and ecological themes. Born in Umerkot, Sindh and works in Lahore.

Karim Ahmed Khan – Visual artist focusing on environmental themes through sculpture and charcoal drawings. Operates a studio and gallery in Hunza Valley, Pakistan.

Jumana Manna – Visual artist and filmmaker exploring power, land, and materiality across cinema, sculpture, and collage. Lives in Jerusalem and Berlin.

Inaam Zafar – Visual artist, educator, and gardener working with painting, drawing, and botanical materials. Lives and works in Lahore.

artists

please use this link for Olomopolo location

9 february | 7:00pm | Olomopolo

special screening of Wild Relatives by Jumana Manna
discussion led by Azra Sayeed from Roots for Equity

film in Arabic with English subtitles


10 february | 2:00–4:00pm | Mubarik Haveli

opening ceremony
with light snacks and refreshments
and performance by Danish Gahlot

then daily performance at 4:00 PM



exhibition continues until 13th february, open daily from 10:00am–5:00pm

programme, times, and locations

please use this link for Mubarik Haveli location

The exhibition is taking place at Mubarik Haveli, housed within the Naqsh School of Arts Complex in Androon Shehr, Suﬁ Mandi Bazaar, Bhati Gate. Final approach is best by foot or rickshaw as there is minimal parking close to venue. 

Please use the link below.

The special screening of Wild Relatives by artist Jumana Manna will take place at Olomopolo, linked map under programme, times, and location.

venue details and directions

view the trailer at this link

64min, 2018

Deep beneath the Arctic permafrost, seeds from around the world are stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault as a safeguard against disaster. Wild Relatives begins with a 2012 event: an international agricultural research center relocated from Aleppo to Lebanon due to the Syrian war, replanting its seed collection from Svalbard backups. Following the journey of these seeds, the film traces human and non-human lives between the Arctic and Lebanon, showing the connection between global initiatives and local practices in the Bekaa Valley, carried out mainly by young migrant women. Its meditative pace explores tensions between state and individual, industrial and organic approaches to seed saving, climate change, and biodiversity.

synopsis of Wild Relatives, by Jumana Manna

on seeds and ecology:
Seed Inc.: Food Sovereignty, Farmers' Rights, and New Legal Regimes in Pakistan, Amna Tanweer Yazdani and Nosheen Ali, Karti Dharti Papers, Alif Series (No. 11), November 2016:
Seed_Inc_Food_Sovereignty_Farmers_Rights_and_New_Legal_Regimes_in_Pakistan_Amna_Tanweer_Yazdani_and_Nosheen_Ali_Karti_Dharti_Papers_Alif_Series_No_11_November_2016

on the films:
A Small Big Thing, Jumana Manna, Tamawuj journal (SB13), 2018
https://files.cargocollective.com/528515/Jumana-Manna_A-Small-Big-Thing_Tamawuj.pdf

‘Planting Seeds/The Fires of War’: The Geopolitics of Seed Saving in Jumana Manna’s Wild Relatives, Shela Sheikh, Third Text, 2018
https://files.cargocollective.com/528515/Planting-Seeds-The-Fires-of-War_Sheikh.pdf

Ecofeminism With Marwa Arsanios, by Madeleine Collier, Senses of Cinema, 2021
https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2021/interviews/ecofeminism-with-marwa-arsanios/

links to further readings

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an exhibition on seeds as archives

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