Calabash Nebula - Tabita Rezaire and Her Cosmological Tales of Connection

The first volume of the new series WMW NOW is dedicated to the artist, activist, and farmer Tabita Rezaire, who in her work presents a poetic and critical reconfiguration of knowledge, combining indigenous cosmologies, African spirituality, ecofeminist perspectives, and scientific findings into a visually and conceptually dense practice.

Five authors accompany this project with contributions from their respective fields: artist Léa d. Allexandre, curator Inke Arns, environmental activist and writer Holly Bynoe, ethnobotanist Marc-Alexandre Tareau, and marine biologist and behavioural scientist Anja Wegner. Their texts open up multi-layered approaches to Rezaire’s work and allow us to experience how knowledge, practice, and aesthetics intersect in productive ways.

Focusing on current exhibition and research projects of the Weltmuseum Wien, WMW NOW aims to question and expand existing narratives, promote multiperspective approaches, and critically examine socially relevant issues.