Unwintering
Unwintering
by Aria Danaparamita
Unwintering
Photo installation • UK
With what feels like interminable grief at the world, Unwintering is my attempt to refuse defeat and reweave an embodied relation with the land. An ongoing project, I began documenting seasonal transitions in woods along the River Lea where I live as a boater, witnessing and being with trees, bramble, and soil as they transform with time. As a migrant, I also reflect on what it means to occupy these English woodlands, using my lens and writing to assert the possibility of justice along ecological time. In these interactions, I seek affirmation in nature's resilience to reawaken each spring, longing for our liberatory becoming.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Aria Danaparamita, or Mita, (they/them) is a lens-based artist, writer, and community organiser who engages art as poetic resistance for collective liberation. Traversing words, still and moving image, their artistic and community-based practice explores diasporic decolonialities, often through the lens of land, place, and belonging. With interest in colonial visual and material historiography, their curatorial work and research interrogates the political intersections of archive, material culture, and colonial legacies. Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, Mita has practiced in Southeast Asia, the US, and the UK.
