After her recent exploration of potatoes and plant diversity, this time Åsa Sonjasdotter opens our eyes to our relationship with the living world by unveiling the secrets of a selection of insects.

Asa Sonjasdotter is setting up her “exhibit-market”, which opens this Saturday 18th October at the Centquatre.

Pink Fir Apple, Vitelotte, Belle de Fontenay, Bonnotte… these poetically-named potatoes grown in France for hundreds of years have stories to tell. “Some were already farmed around the time of the French Revolution”, Åsa Sonjasdotter explains.

While Åsa Sonjasdotter prepares for her Potato Perspective exhibition “Haute diversité par le prisme de la patate“ at the Centquatre-Paris from 18 to 26 October 2014, we visited her installation at Chamarande, open to the chateau’s visitors until 26 October.

Åsa Sonjasdotter is a Swedish-born artist based in Tromsø, Norway and Berlin, Germany.

Sonjasdotter’s practice focuses on questions of diversity, power and knowledge. Her projects often unfold over time, following the conditions of the involved participants and investigated subject. In the long term project “A Potato-Perspective” Sonjasdotter investigates the cultural, political and economic implications of humans’ domestication of the potato plant. In Sonjasdotter’s projects the exhibition often operates as a site for the real exchange of goods, knowledge and power positions as well as functioning as a metaphor for societal conditions.

www.potatoperspective.org

www.kunstakademietitromso.no