Native Plants, Invasive Plants

2015

Published by Sailor Press
Graphic design Matilda Plöjel

Printed in a number of 250 and can be ordered from Sailor Press website.
A Special Edition Box is also available. The box contains everything you need to make you own herbarium. In edition of 10.

Published with support from Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse & Konstnärsnämnden.

A herbarium in Cairo and an allotment in Gothenburg; both are appearing in one book.

The two places are linked through images and texts, but, at the same time, their differences are obvious. Both spaces contain plants, an unkept plot of land opposed to a dried garden behind closed cabinet doors. Order versus disorder, the living versus the dead, indoors versus outdoors. What these spaces have in common is a desire to belong, to demand a place, and to organize space according to ones own tradition. The origin of the book is the work of Swedish botanist Vivi Täckholm. Täckholm chose Cairo as her hometown and worked within a tradition of botany, which has a long history. The dialogue continues in the formal structure of the book, where the English language is prevailing on a German paper size imbedded in an Arabic structure.