Card games "Memory of Wild Plants" and "Seed Dominoes". Photo: Shada Safadi
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Saturday 14 and Monday 16 June, 2025
Games with Seeds, Plants and Flowers from the Golan Heights with Shada Safadi
Restoring a poetic, ancestral relationship with the native flora of Palestine.
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In this workshop, Shada Safadi, Palestinian artist in residence at TEJA, invites us to activate two pieces that are in fact two games: Memory of Wild Plants and Seed Dominoes allow us to talk about plants and seeds from the Golan Heights region that have been categorised as weeds. This means they are left out of the productive circuit and the properties, uses and traditions associated with them have been lost.
The games Memory of Wild Plants and Seed Dominoes invite participants to rediscover and reconnect through play with the native wild plants of Palestine.
Each game is inspired by botanical illustrations that were circulated during the colonial campaign to control weeds in 1940 in Palestine. These “weeds” are plants that at that time were classified as harmful and attacked by industrial agriculture, but which hold profound ancestral, medicinal and ecological knowledge that has been passed down from generation to generation through everyday use and oral narrative. By relating the seeds to their plants, the names to their images and the patterns with memories, the games help to restore a more intimate, poetic relationship with local flora.
PROGRAMME
11:00 – 13:00 h
14/06/2025
Workshop open to the public with the group of children and young people from the Children’s Centre and their families, who take part in the Mobile Garden. We will create a collective mural that will eventually transform into an imaginary garden.
To sign up, write to: jardiambulant@macba.cat
To sign up, write to: jardiambulant@macba.cat
11:00 – 13:00 h
16/06/2025
Workshop within the project Spend Time Together (from the ArtGran programme) with the Mobile Garden community group, accompanied by staff from the Raval Nord health centre.
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Shada Safadi
Born in 1982 in Majdal Shams, in the occupied Syrian Goal Heights, Shada Safadi began her artistic career studying painting and engraving at the Adham Ismail Center for Fine Arts in Damascus. She subsequently graduated in Fine Art from the University of Damascus.
Her work has been part of several exhibitions in Syria, Palestine, Sweden and the United Kingdom. A highlight of her career is her part in the Syrian Cultural Caravan, with which she exhibited her work all over Europe. In 2014, Safadi had an artistic residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, and recently exhibited at the Metelkova Museum of Contemporary Art in Slovenia under the title “What Does the Crocodile Dream Of?”
She also worked with Akram al Halabi on the exhibition “Mist”, at the Zawyeh Gallery in Ramallah (2022), and was artist in residence at the Alserkal Art Foundation in Dubai in 2023. She currently lives and works in her birthplace in the occupied Golan Heights and in Ramallah, in occupied Palestine.
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