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Onomatopee 253, Leonie Brandner, 2024

Three Becomes Two Becomes One Becomes None

cosmopoiesis of mandragoras

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The mandragora plant is one of the best recorded gynaecological herbal substances. It is also the only plant in the European context historically depicted as a half-human-half-plant-creature. The mandragora was, is and continues to be haunted by stories. Could its many stories hold a key for luring our minds off paths that have been sufficiently trodden down? What if the mandragora holds the potential for new orders and for world-making; for a cosmopoeisis of mandragoras.

Three Becomes Two Becomes One Becomes None explores the medicinal and magical mandragora plant, and the many stories that grew around it across history. Artist Leonie Brandner's writing moves from the beginning of recorded storytelling to ancient Egyptian and Greek mythology, tracing the lines the mandragora has left behind in medicinal books, folklore and eventually the impact the plant had in the hunt on so-called witches in the Middle Ages. Gently weaving her own perception and encounters with the plant through her rigorous historical research, Leonie Brandner creates a kaleidoscopical image of human-plant-imaginations across time.

Type
Softcover
Dimensions
150 x 200 mm
Pages
196
ISBN
978-94-93382-06-0
Editor
Marjolein van der Loo
Author
Leonie Brandner
Graphic
Elisa Piazzi
Artist
Leonie Brandner
Language
English
Release date
20240831
Binding
Perfect bound
Paper
70 gsm Holmen TRND, 290 gsm Sirio Color
Edition
1200
Printer
Wilco, Amersfoort
Onomatopee project manager
Jesse Muller, Natasha Rijkhoff
Proofreader
Georgie Brinkman
Made possible by
Jaap Harten Fonds, Stroom Den Haag, Gemeente Den Haag
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