Jef Geys, "Hartrick Avenue / Euphorbia maculata," (detail) 2010.New exhibition by artist Jef Geys entitled Woodward Avenue now on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
From the exhibition article:
Operating across conventional boundaries that often limit discourse within the social, the political, and the aesthetic, Jef Geys' Woodward Avenue is guided by an intellectual curiosity that incorporates collaboration and community, with a distinct conceptual method grounded by the unambiguous reality of plant life. Linking two seemingly different places in Bolivia and Detroit, the films included in the exhibition were made by Vandebroek during her workshops and edited with detached precision by Geys. Revealing sensitivity to the utility of indigenous plants among traditional healers, which occasionally contrasts with the biomedical healthcare providers conventional practice, the films broaden the scope of the exhibition geographically, while underlining the persistent gaps in the promise of modernity routinely filled by the perennial resourcefulness of those on its margins.
