In the Underbelly of a Kernel

Focusing on photographic and video-based media, Eve Tagny’s artistic practice intertwines performance, sculptural elements and research to produce spatial installations reflecting narratives of grief, resilience and strength. She understands landscapes as witnesses of individual and collective disruptions, at the same time, uncovering their hidden poten- tial for remembrance and regeneration. Starting with materials, forms and cycles found in nature, the artist explores ways of conceiving a relation- ship to nature that is not reduced to a logic of extraction or scientific categorisation, but that allows for other forms of knowledge, languages and connection. In her most comprehensive presentation to date, Eve (b. 1986, CA, living and working in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal) continues her examination of the entanglement of colonialism, botanical science and the commodifica- tion of nature and body in a site-specific installation featuring newly- commissioned video works. "In the Underbelly of a Kernel" is her first insti- tutional solo exhibition outside of Canada and will be accompanied by an extensive programme of events, centred in part on close collaboration with local actors to interrogate traces of colonialism in the city of Münster. The show is part of the year-long research, exhibition and discourse pro- gramme "The Company We Keep Makes the World We Live In" under the new artistic direction of Theresa Roessler. It focuses on the political and resilient potential of friendship, taking this both as a prerequisite for productive collaboration and as a model for constructive political relations.