An interview with iLiana Fokianaki, curator of the exhibition The One-Straw Revolution at Framer Framed. The exhibition focuses on permaculture and environmental care, featuring artists who explore sustainable living, interspecies coexistence, and the impact of human actions on the environment. iLiana curated artists whose work highlights the urgency of addressing the ecological crisis and the need for a more sustainable and respectful relationship with the environment. She hopes the exhibition will prompt visitors to consider their connections to their environment and ancestral ways of sustainable living.
This exhibition draws inspiration from The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (1975) by Japanese farmer and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka, a seminal work in ecological thinking and practice.
iLiana Fokianaki, a curator, theorist, and educator based in Athens, Rotterdam, and Bern, was appointed as the new director of Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, in December 2023. Her research focuses on the intersections of power formations influenced by geopolitics, national identity, and cultural and anthropological histories.