Jef Geys
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Woodward Avenue - Jef Geys
carriage trade is very pleased to present Woodward Avenue by Jef Geys, a project originally commissioned by Luis Croquer and produced at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. This exhibition is a variation of Geys' Quadra Medicinale, at the Belgian Pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennale, a collaboration of four of the artist's friends who collected and archived "urban flora" in Brussels, Moscow, Villeurbanne, and New York. For Woodward Avenue, Geys asked the ethnobotanist Ina Vandebroek to collect weeds found on 12 intersections along a thirty-mile stretch of Detroit's main thoroughfare and document their properties (medicinal, poisonous, etc.). The results were collated into a multi-layered project which incorporates photographs, text, maps, and dried plant specimens, and is accompanied by a fil...
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carriage trade is very pleased to present Woodward Avenue by Jef Geys, a project originally commissioned by Luis Croquer and produced at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. This exhibition is a variation of Geys' Quadra Medicinale, at the Belgian Pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennale, a collaboration of four of the artist's friends who collected and archived "urban flora" in Brussels, Moscow, Villeurbanne, and New York. For Woodward Avenue, Geys asked the ethnobotanist Ina Vandebroek to collect weeds found on 12 intersections along a thirty-mile stretch of Detroit's main thoroughfare and document their properties (medicinal, poisonous, etc.). The results were collated into a multi-layered project which incorporates photographs, text, maps, and dried plant specimens, and is accompanied by a fil...