LandRush
Ventures into global agriculture
exposition de Frauke Huber & Uwe H. Martin

LandRusH –Ventures into global agriculture is an artistic exploration of the social and environmental impact of agriculture around the world.

Agriculture drives climate change, extinction, erosion and water depletion. It uses about 40 % of all land on earth and more than 70 % of all freshwater; drying up riverbeds and draining aquifers. Due to over-exploitation of the soil and rapidly intensifying global temperatures desertification is one of the greatest threats to life on earth. Every minute of every day 23 hectares of arable land are lost to growing deserts, while 23 % of the global land surface1 has reduced productivity due to land degradation.

By 2048 the world’s population is expected to balloon to nearly ten billion. Combined with changing diets — primarily from plant based to meat and fish — this means a higher demand for food and the threat of an even faster degradation of our soil due to exhaustion, while at the same time an increasing number of harvests will fail as a result of climate change. Fertilizer disposal from industrial farming activities harm the ecosystems of rivers and coastal areas, while deforestation and the transformation of grassland into farmland causes soil erosion and a loss of biodiversity. Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history and agriculture and land-use changes are the main drivers that also contribute roughly a quarter of greenhouse gases driving the global climate crisis.

All combined, agriculture is the single most transformative thing humans are collectively doing to the planet, yet most people don’t realize how fragile our food systems actually are.

Frauke Huber and Uwe H. Martin have been documenting the social and environmental consequences of global agriculture since 2007. Using a slow journalism approach they build close relationships with farmers, ranchers and fishermen; and interview policy makers, activists and scientists. Their projects have grown organically, chapter by chapter, in a constant cycle of research, production, and presentation. This open process allows their work to surface in ever-new contexts, gradually building bridges from magazine publications and documentary films, linear web documentaries, and interactive apps to spatial installations at art institutions.

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Vernissage samedi 20.03.2021 de 11h à 16h (dans le respect des mesures sanitaires en vigueur)

Pomhouse, CNA  1b, rue du Centenaire L-3475 Dudelange

En raison de la situation actuelle liée au Covid-19, le vernissage sera réparti en créneaux horaires d'une heure. 

Dans le respect des consignes sanitaires liées à la Pandémie du Covid-19, le nombre de visiteurs dans l'espace d'exposition est limité. Le port du masque ainsi que le maintien d'une distance de sécurité de 2 mètres entre les visiteurs est obligatoire.