FORAGERS | JUMANA MANNA

2 - 30 September 2023

Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am - 4.30pm

Late opening until 9pm on Fridays, until 22 September

Free admission, all welcome

Also open Sunday 3 September, from 11am - 3.30pm

Born in Palestine in 1987, Jumana Manna is a visual artist and filmmaker. Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel. The film employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. The restrictions prohibit the collection of native plants, resulting in fines and trials for hundreds of people. The film documents the pursuit of the foragers by the nature patrol and the foragers' courtroom defences. It captures the joy and knowledge embodied in these foraging traditions alongside their resilience to the prohibitive law. Foragers is presented as part of Acts of Gathering, an Eden Project programme bringing together artworks that celebrate and interrogate the nature of food culture in a rapidly changing world. The main exhibition of the programme can be seen at the Eden Project, St Austell until 2 January 2024.