‘On The Need For New Rituals’ was Maia Magoga’s solo exhibition to mark the end of her year-long residency at OmVed Gardens, an interdisciplinary space operating at the intersection of food, art and ecology. 

The exhibition was a culmination of research that poetically explored the folkloric and ancestral wisdom enmeshed in our wild, and urban, landscapes. Foregrounding the role of ritual in the process of re-enchanting ourselves with our nonhuman kin, while also understanding ritual as an essential force in shaping collective imagination, Magoga’s work explored the ways in which ritualistic practices can help us unearth narratives that may awaken new possibilities within us.

Along the tradition of mystical and earth-based knowledge systems, Maia approached the landscape itself as an archive holding interconnected narratives. Recounting the story of a local, dream-inducing weed called Artemesia Vulgaris, Maia offered us a way into the landscape as a space of contemplation and transformation.

Working across varying mediums and with multiple processes, including embroidery, ceramics, installation, and a meditation sound piece. Maia portrayed four historic emblems of ritualistic practice - the vessel, the seed, the hand and flora - symbols that have provided us with both literal and metaphysical substance over the course of human history.

Curated by Sol Pollo.