Symposion LindabrunnA place to be for contemporary Art and Discourse in a nature environment
Symposion Lindabrunn
The life of wild plants shows parallels to our society, for example when neophytes are portrayed as unloved wild plants or women’s herbs are discredited by popular belief.
In textile books, the artist passes on various stories
about the healing powers of plants. In the NEOPHYTEN III books embroidered in 2023, she focuses on neophytes. These plants arrived after 1492 with or without human intervention in an area where they were not previously native. Many
have interesting properties, healing powers or a variety of uses, yet such species are blacklisted, fought against and outlawed because they can conquer large areas and thus suppress the “native” fauna. “If we don’t allow plants with a history of migration to become part of our
part of our culture, they will remain marginalized,” says the artist.
In her work, Katya Dimova studies these plants on site in all their complexity and plays with the layers of meaning. Are (we) humans also neophytes?
