Lost Territories: Fruit Garden (LTA 3)
The Lost Territories: Fruit Garden photobook doubles as both a visual paraphrase and figurative parsing of the words of the renowned Soviet horticulturist Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, who once famously declared: “We cannot wait for favours from Nature. To take them from it—that is our task.”
Initially a strip-mined cross section of the consequences of anthropocentric appropriation, Fruit Garden’s archaeological dig of a survey extends to a scrutinisation of the doctrinal mindset underpinning Michurin’s axiom; and of the ways in which, during the reign of the Soviet Union, its repeated and obsessive implementation on a society-wide scale left in ideology’s wake a razed expanse of human habitats and psychologies, here represented by unseen tribes of damaged individuals, scarred for life by a regime’s dehumanizing regimen of invasive scientific experimentation, and yet doggedly clinging to some semblance of a makeshift existence going forward.
Artists: Andrej Balco, Jan Brykczyński, Andrei Liankevich, Michał Łuczak, Rafał Milach, Adam Pańczuk, Agnieszka Rayss;
Texts: Stefan Lorenzutti, Maciej Pisuk;
Concept: Rafał Milach, Ania Nałęcka-Milach, Paweł Szypulski;
Project: Ania Nałęcka-Milach / Tapir Book Design;
ISBN: 978-83-941826-7-0;
Number of pages: 168;
Circulation: 800;
Language: English, Polish;
Dimensions: 165 x 214.
