The simultaneous ecological and social crises, within our extractive society that is at the end of its tether, has highlighted the interdependence of beings and their surroundings. Faced with the need for new ways of acting and caring for the Earth, can we truly reclaim it? Can the Earth reclaim itself? Or is it the Earth that reclaims us?

In the group exhibition Reclaim the Earth curated by Daria de Beauvais at the Palais de Tokyo, artists develop new relationships with the environment, making us aware that we are not only “facing the landscape”, or simply “on Earth,” but are rather “amongst” them, thus causing a shift in a Eurocentric and Anthropocentric vision.

For ecofeminist thinking, and other forms of thought, exploring what connects us to the Earth requires questioning relationships of power, and the nature of the bonds of subsistence that exist between places and those who inhabit them. By questioning the relationships of domination between beings, these thoughts generate other ways of being in the world that stretch beyond existing dualisms.

This station explores the correspondence between struggles for the recognition of the Earth, and the collective desire to rally forces of the pluriverse so as to better inhabit it. Continuing the work done by the Brain Space Laboratory, and in particular the various stations, Station 15 (Become Flesh, How to Change Paradigms in Entangled Worlds?), Stations 18 (Cartographies of Us#1 & 2, Rituel·le·s) and 21 (Caring for the Land), Station 22 How to Reclaim the Earth? sketches the outlines of a world in common and of cosmomorphic solidarities.

Amakaba x Olaniyi Studio, Nono: Soil Temple, 2022. Courtesy of the artists
In the exhibition Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo (15.04.2022 - 04.09.2022)
Photo : Aurélien Mole

asinnajaq, Rock Piece (Ahuriri Edition), 2018. Courtesy of the artist

Megan Cope, Untitled (Death Song), 2020. Courtesy of the artist & Milani Gallery (Brisbane)
In the exhibition Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo (15.04.2022 - 04.09.2022)
Photo : Aurélien Mole

Kate Newby, The edge of the earth, 2022. Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept (Paris)
In the exhibition Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo (15.04.2022 - 04.09.2022)
Photo : Aurélien Mole

Kate Newby, you wish.  you wish, 2022. Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept (Paris)
In the exhibition Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo (15.04.2022 - 04.09.2022)
Photo : Aurélien Mole

Kate Newby, it makes my day so much better if i speak to all of you (detail), 2022. Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept (Paris)
In the exhibition Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo (15.04.2022 - 04.09.2022)
Photo : Aurélien Mole

Solange Pessoa, Cathedral, 1990-2003. Courtesy of the artist & Mendes Wood DM (Bruxelles, New York, Sao Paulo)
In the exhibition Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo (15.04.2022 - 04.09.2022)
Photo : Aurélien Mole

Judy Watson with Tor Maclean, lost islands of the seine with temperature chart, 2022 ; Judy Watson burrum riber with dead tree, 2022 (from left to the right). Courtesy of the artists & Milani Gallery (Brisbane)
In the exhibition Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo (15.04.2022 – 04.09.2022).
Photo : Aurélien Mole 

Judy Watson with Tor Maclean, Cheryl Leavy, Madeleine King, Ebony Wolmott, Dot Watson, Rani Carmichael & Dhana Merrit, moreton bay rivers, australian temperature chart, freshwater mussel shells, net, spectogram, 2022. Courtesy of the artists & Milani Gallery (Brisbane)
In the exhibition Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo (15.04.2022 – 04.09.2022).
Photo : Aurélien Mole 

Judy Watson with Tor Maclean, canoe creek, humbug reach, black casuarina, 2022. Courtesy of the artists & Milani Gallery (Brisbane)
In the exhibition Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo (15.04.2022 – 04.09.2022).
Photo : Aurélien Mole

Judy Watson, red spine (bunya) and kangaroo grass, 2022. Courtesy of the artist & Milani Gallery (Brisbane)
In the exhibition Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo (15.04.2022 – 04.09.2022).
Photo : Aurélien Mole

Judy Watson, rivers of the gulf with casuarina, 2022. Courtesy of the artist & Milani Gallery (Brisbane)
In the exhibition Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo (15.04.2022 – 04.09.2022).
Photo : Aurélien Mole