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Accompanying the 2025 exhibition The Land Sings Back, this publication introduces the work of thirteen artists with ancestries across South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, reimagining our relationship to our breathing planet. Produced in collaboration between Colomboscope (Sri Lanka) and Drawing Room, the guide includes a selection of artworks and an essay by Natasha Ginwala, Artistic Director of Colomboscope, co-curator of Sharjah Biennial 16 and curator of The Land Sings Back.
Engaging with these cultural vocabularies through a lens of environmental justice, the exhibition approaches drawing as an active agent of social history, Indigenous knowledge and ecofeminist philosophy, rather than as a tool of illustration, classification and conquest. Exposing entanglements between the human-vegetal-animal, the works explore how botanical consciousness can reshape relationships among multitudinous life-forms, making room for regeneration amidst indebtedness, infrastructural collapse and neocolonial inheritance. The Land Sings Back encourages a connection with ancestral wisdom, reciprocal rather than extractive relationships with land.
Participating artists include Lado Bai, Shiraz Bayjoo, Lavkant Chaudhary, Jasmine Nilani Joseph, Manjot Kaur, Otobong Nkanga, Rupaneethan Pakkiyarajah, Joydeb Roaja, Anupam Roy, Anushka Rustomji, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Arulraj Ulaganathan and Charmaine Watkiss.
Design: Tim Jukes
Copy Editor: Kathryn Lloyd
Essay: Natasha Ginwala
Full colour images copyrighted by the artist unless stated otherwise
44 pages
210mm x 145mm
Published by Drawing Room | Tannery Arts CIO, London