Performance Lecture - Sigrid Holmwood

Sunday 22/9 at 13.00 in the art museum's auditorium.

In a performance lecture, Sigrid Holmwood talks about the figure of the farmer in European and Swedish art history and about her own persona "the peasant painter". She will also explain the connection between cannibals and witches.
Sigrid Holmwood is a Malmö-based artist with an artistic doctorate from Goldsmiths College in London. She is interested in how the figure of the farmer has been used to construct modernity, especially in Nordic countries, but also in artistic practices that have emerged from farming communities. Researching plant colors and producing pigments from plants is therefore central to her practice. She follows the history of plants and unearths their relationships to folklore, colonialism and modernity.

The event is part of "Man in the landscape", a program series in three parts about man in relation to his surrounding nature. Together with ABF Österlen, Ystad's art museum invites artists and researchers to an in-depth conversation. This autumn, it is about naked soldiers on horseback on the beach, about picking wild herbs on occupied land and about connections between botany and witch trials.
All program points in the series have free entry and do not require advance registration.