Tools for the Post-Plantation

Year
2023
Format
Objects
Tools for the Post-Plantation

What can grow in the ruins of the Plantation ?

๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜-๐—ฃ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป delves into the speculative possibilities of a Post-Plantation society in La Rรฉunion. Discarded machetes, once instruments of labour subjugation, are repurposed into everyday tools offering alternative gestures to the land.

The artefacts serve as both archives of a violent past and devices for recalling possible futures.
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fabricator: Sebastian Quijada link
photos: Peter Cox, courtesy of the Van Abbemuseum

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