Long Hanging Fruits (2022–ongoing)

Overview

Often through collaborative projects, Elia Nurvista reflects on concepts within food discourse related to globalisation, material extraction, exploitation and exotification.
Combining sculpture, found objects, screen-printed fabric panels and a video installation, ‘Long Hanging Fruits’ (2022–ongoing) unravels the devastating ecological consequences of the cultivation, production and consumption of palm oil in Indonesia, the world’s largest producer of the world’s most widely consumed vegetable oil. Indigenous to Africa, the plants were brought to Indonesia during the Dutch colonial era. Since their arrival, they have ruined the land and generated land conflicts among local communities. This work has been adapted for the Biennial and draws inspiration from its location at the Old Al Jubail Vegetable Market.