SOLS/SOLOS/SOILS is an exploration of process-based practices and healing through community craft making.

Taking its premise from Turning Grounds (2022), a self-initiated and site-specific residency that mutated into a transcontinental and intergenerational collective sculpture.

Through engagement with traditions and knowledge and using cultural heritage as a tool of empowerment, the creative processes look at the dichotomy between long-time-based organic craft practices versus high-speed production and industrial waste, with an interest in the idea of performing productivity and labour in a time of collective healing.

Turning Grounds uses artistic methodology and a process-driven practice to research the sustainability of materials and their potentialities, to be re-used, mutated, or left behind, at the same time stimulating human interaction and connection, creating moments of collective resilience in community-based contexts.

A collaboration between Georgina Wane, Helena Bata Cambula, Zaida Guilengue, Amélia Matimbe, Melita Massuguela, Carolina Gota, Belinha Salvador, Cremilda Nhambirre, Aurélien Lepetit, João Roxo, Tim McKulka, Anyieth D’Awol. With the kind support and sponsoring of Libumba, Whinzo, Anima Creative Studio and Sauna Nieuwezijds Amsterdam.