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Wandering Fruit

Wandering Fruit

Wandering Fruit

entry n°
M-663
type
artwork
themes
textile
, 
seeds
, 
agriculture
date
1 August 2026
August 2026
2026
 – 
–
12 September 2026
September 2026
2026
location
by
Matilde Yilmaz
with
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Wandering Fruit researches what happens when symbols are designed to undo themselves, when marking a border becomes a ritual of release. Taking the form of a flag, the work interrogates it as a symbol of both celebration and demarcation, carrying native Dutch flower seeds woven into the textile. Functioning as a temporary vehicle, it performs its ceremonial role while emptying itself, becoming less a marker of claimed ground than an agent of life spreading across the earth. Responding to the Frisian landscape surrounding REST, an endless grass desert broken into rectangular plots, its seeds move beyond man-made borders, infiltrating any land that offers them a home, simply arriving, taking root, and growing.

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Matilde Yilmaz is a Dutch-Kurdish artist based in Amsterdam. Her work often reflects on the intersection of landscape, material, and object primarily through the use of textile and craft methodologies. By examining the ways histories live within things we encounter every day, she investigates how the familiar becomes a vessel for collective memory and meaning. Looking at how we inhabit and are shaped by our surroundings, Yilmaz’s work explores how relationships with place and matter carry cultural, political, and historical weight.