Plantation
- Dates and Opening times
- Fri 5 - Sun 21 Jun10am - 5pm
- Venue
The Warehouse, Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, G3 8AW
- Participants
- Rehana Zaman
- Presented by
Glasgow International
- Supported by
Glasgow International, Site Gallery, Project Arts Centre and Chapter in partnership with Whitechapel Gallery. Produced by Site Gallery. Research and development supported by Hospitalfield. With additional support from Arts Council England, Henry Moore Foundation, the Joanna Drew Travel Bursary and Goldsmiths University of London Strategic Research Fund.
- Accessiblity
Level Access, Step Free: The venue has ramped or level access and/or lifts to upper floors
Toilets: The venue has toilets available for visitors
Accessible Toilets: The venue has a wheelchair accessible toilet
Hearing Loop: The venue has a hearing loop available
Refreshments: There is a cafe or somewhere you can purchase refreshments
Baby Change: The venue has baby changing facilities
Parking: Accessible parking
Plantation is a new solo exhibition by artist Rehana Zaman, exploring land use, labour and environmental collapse through the experiences of agricultural workers.
The exhibition includes two new films presented within an immersive sculptural landscape.
The films Soft Fruit (filmed in Angus, Scotland) and Jo Kherray so Khaey (filmed in Punjab, Pakistan), follow migrant seasonal workers, sharecroppers, tenants and day labourers as they pick, prepare and transport cash crops.
Plantation explores the nature of work on modern industrial farms driven by the accumulation of profit, extractive processes that exhaust and deplete both land and worker, and an increasingly precarious labour force positioned according to class and caste.
Candid conversations and scenes of rebellious, collective gathering appear alongside observational footage in shifting visual formats – from high-definition video to 16mm, and CGI inspired by medieval Islamic cosmography – building a layered sense of time and place.
The installation extends this world into a sculptural environment riffing off agricultural structures, such as polytunnels and cooling tents, transforming the gallery into an immersive landscape of light and sound.
Co-commissioned by Site Gallery, Glasgow International, Project Arts Centre and Chapter in partnership with Whitechapel Gallery. Produced by Site Gallery. Research and development supported by Hospitalfield.