MOS, GORZOW, PRESENTS MOTHER-BURN
Opening: 6.06.2025, 18:00 Curator: Bartosz Nowak
MOS In Gorzow, Poland, presents “MOTHER-BURN”, the second video of a trilogy by the artist-couple Mario Asef & Kirstin Burckhardt. It was filmed on-site in the burned remains of a Redwood tree grove in the ecologically avantgarde architecture project “The Sea Ranch” in Northern California. Based on extensive periods of research there, Asef-Burckhardt created videos, drawings, paintings, performance, sound, photographs and poems produced on site and in Berlin. Their multimedia project is continuously expanding and shown in changing settings at exhibition venues in different countries.
Against the acute backdrop of the global environmental crisis, new anthropological questions such as ‘What must architecture connect today?’ and ‘What must love achieve today?’ are raised and artistically explored in close relation to the real topography of the The Sea Ranch. Situated in the north of San Francisco, The Sea Ranch is a 10 mile strip of land with clustered residential buildings which are integrated into the sharp cliffs of the Pacific. Strong, saltsoaked winds from the sea, rugged rocks in fine sand and ancient redwood forests characterise the landscape here. The masterplan for this territory was developed by the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin in collaboration with the four architects Richard Whitaker, Donlyn Lyndon, Charles Moore, and William Turnbull in the 1960s. To invigorate community building, Lawrence developed workshops together with his wife, the choreographer Anna Halprin. Since then, the estate has continued to grow and still sets international standards for the interplay between architecture and nature – in other words, ‘protection’ and ‘environment.