Wild Relatives – Screening

3 June

17.30–19.00

Main hall

No booking is required

Refreshments will be served

Welcome to a screening of Wild Relatives by Jumana Manna.

In this approximately one-hour-long work, we follow the journeys of selected seeds across the world. The film begins at Svalbard Global Seed Vault, where seeds from around the globe are stored in a refrigerated mountain vault as a kind of global insurance against future crises. When a Syrian seed archive in Aleppo is destroyed during the war, researchers and agronomists must retrieve their seeds from the vault and replant them in Lebanon — a process that both inspires hope and reveals vulnerability. Through poetic imagery, slow-moving transport sequences, and everyday encounters, Manna portrays how agriculture, geopolitical conflict, and climate change are deeply intertwined.

“A seed is like love; planting hearts will put out the fires of war.”

Jumana Manna is one of 12 participating artists in the exhibition Att slå rot, that is on view until June 18.

The screening will begin with a short introduction by Anna-Karin Wulgué, Artistic Director of Färgfabriken, and conclude with an open discussion.

Image above: Installation view of Wild Relatives (2018). Photo: Johan Österholm.