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Poetry film, Time: 7mins 12secs
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Title: We are all soil. soil—the grave of all.
Date: 2024-2025Technique: Video poems, Ceramics, and scenographic installationDimensions: L: 440 cm, B: 440 cm, H: 260 cm, Location: Foundation Fiminco, Romainville, Paris
Curatorial text by Ludovic Delalande for the exhibition ‘Habiter la faile’
Ankur Yadav develops a multidisciplinary practice that combines sculpture, ceramics, video, and poetry. Through this approach, he interrogates power dynamics, colonial legacies, and forms of resistance to oppression. His work explores the connections between body, environment, and decentralized knowledge systems, highlighting modes of existence that are often marginalized. In this installation, the artist shapes a stone-cave — an organic form into which the audience is invited to enter. This sculptural gesture blurs the boundaries between landscape and body, between the mineral and the organic. Inside, two stop-motion video poems, created from his own drawings and texts, evoke the sensitive relationship between humans, nature, and the elements. Around them, ceramic body fragments extend this reflection, like archaeological remains from a world in flux. Somewhere between refuge and symbolic space, the work becomes a site of listening, memory, and reconnection. In it, Ankur Yadav sketches out an ecological and inclusive imaginary — one that invites us to imagine other ways of being in the world.