49m2, year 7, summer 2023 | Penelope Cain
Summer 2023 with Penelope Cain AS GUEST ARTIST IN THE ZAARTPARK, BREDA
From 22 September 2022 to 21 June 2023 is Penelope Cain will be the guest artist of the 49 square meters in the Zaartpark in Breda. Penelope Cain works at the intersection of science and storytelling, exploring how human presence inscribes the land at the end of the Holocene. Her practice draws on more-than-human systems and speculative mythologies to retell planetary narratives. Informed by residencies with EU science-arts initiatives, Cain’s recent work has imagined glaciers as historians, birds as memory-keepers, and wind as an active agent. She maps the transformed landscape as archive, question and future fiction.
She was artist-in-residence of the 49m² in the summer of 2023, where she explored the question ‘What if it became a kingdom for moles, or for a willow tree, or even for a ladybird’.
