Li, Kwan Queenie.

Weeds : a germinating theory / Kwan Queenie Li.

[Place of publication not identified] : Mack, 2025.

157 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Sightlines (MACK)

"For over a decade, artist and theorist Kwan Queenie Li has been photographing weeds across the world. From Jerusalem to Shanghai, Varanasi to Athens, Cairo to Mexico City, she has trained her attention on these unintended but ubiquitous inhabitants of the contemporary urban sphere, finding them dwelling in corners and cracks, in spaces suspended between uses, in ruins and on construction sites. This essay in image and text proposes a new view of cities that learns from the weed’s point of view, dissolving familiar categories and temporalities to see cities as evolving and often undefined spaces, replete with opportunity. Weeds organically defy phenomena that are taken for granted as immovable: walls, borders, history, and prescribed identities. They are registers of the real lives of cities – of disuse and neglect, but also freedom and porousness. Out-of-place by definition, they offer a new perspective on the idea of ‘place’ itself, and the ways it shapes and is shaped by its inhabitants."-- Publisher's description.

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Street photography.
Weeds In art Miscellanea.
Invasive plants In art Miscellanea.
Sidewalks In art Miscellanea.
City walls in art Miscellanea.
Photographie de rue.
Plantes envahissantes Dans l'art Miscellanées.
Trottoirs Dans l'art Miscellanées.

Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Sightlines (MACK)

Location: Library main 322982
Call No.: 322982
Copy: 1
Status: Available