My Garden's Boundaries Are the Horizon: Film screenings at Filmtheater Kriterion

For this film screening we explore the theme of the garden by presenting three video works and short films, in the context of de Appel’s current exhibition My Garden’s Boundaries Are the Horizon by the collective To See the Inability to See. The collective, consisting of Arefeh Riahi, Martín La Roche Contreras and Maartje Fliervoet, as well as filmmaker Marwa Arsanios will be present during the screening.

Schutz der Sinne (Protection of the Senses) (2010) by Marcela Moraga
The screening begins with Marcela Moraga’s video work, Schutz der Sinne (Protection of the Senses). The
nature-culture binary and its inherent tensions are revealed through the mundane acts of cleaning and tidying. In her artistic practice, Marcela Moraga features rivers, animals, mountains, plants, and communities impacted by extractive practices as central figures. Employing speculative narratives and fictional methods, informed by spirituality and indigenous knowledge, Moraga creates new stories that foster connections between humans and non-humans.

Who's Afraid of Ideology Part 1 & 4 (2017, 2023) by Marwa Arsanios
Marwa Arsanios’ project Who’s Afraid of Ideology recounts the stories of women as they reclaim land and reconnect with nature amidst a context of war and crumbling democracy. In Part 1 (2017), Marwa Arsanios addresses forms of self-governance and self-defense that have emerged from the Kurdish autonomous women’s movement. The last film in this quadrilogy, Part 4: Reverse Shot (2022), examines the issues of inheritance, ownership, property and commons following a process of communalisation of land in the North of Lebanon. The film is a reflection on the way land as a living object inherently resists property. Matter and land become a witness to a certain history of non-ownership.

Marcela Moraga has created multifaceted projects including tapestries, drawings, performances and videos that explore the tension between culture and what we understand as nature. In her works she analyzes the concept of nature from relationships between reality and fiction, extraction and spirituality, or nature as a multiple possibility. She narrates poetic stories about her encounters and interactions with our architecture, routines and ecosystem.

Marwa Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher who reconsiders mid-twentieth-century politics from a contemporary perspective, with a particular focus on gender relations, spatial practices, and land struggles. She looks at histories of resistances in their contemporary resonance. Arsanios approaches research collaboratively and seeks to work across disciplines. She is the co-founder of the Research Project 98weeks.

Tickets will soon be available on the website of Kriterion.