Mathilda Olmi presents her two most important recent projects. For Resilientia, she followed during a year the life of two Swiss farmers in the Rhône Valley, who are tending to a permaculture garden-forest, aiming to produce a resilient ecosystem without draining its resources. Resilientia suggests alternatives and possible new models for our relation to our environment and for food production. Rosa Canina borrows its title from the name of the dog rose, a tough and thorny plant rumoured to be used by witches. It offers new representations of the female body and bodily experience, from a feminist perspective and a female gaze, while the accompanying still lives draw a parallel between the exploitation of women’s bodies and that of nature. Her most recent project, still in development, is dedicated to the collective farm in the Jura where she volunteers, and which positions itself in opposition to industrial agriculture.
