Artist Talk: Uriel Orlow

Mangoes of Goan Origin (An Archive), 2024 & The Garden, The River (A Conversation), 2024
Mangoes of Goan Origin (An Archive) is a series of prints showcasing various mango varieties from Goa, each with Portuguese names and their initials in 20 languages. This reflects the rich trade interactions since the 16th century.
The Portuguese viewed mangoes as the finest fruit, as noted by Garcia da Orta in 1563. These mangoes served as a diplomatic tool, boosting the Estado da Índia's economy.
The prints highlight linguistic diversity, presenting a more complex view of cultural heritage.
The Garden, The River (A Conversation) is a two-channel video that explores public gardens in Panaji and Lisbon, named after Garcia da Orta, a pioneering Portuguese physician. His 1563 work integrated Eastern plant knowledge into European science.
The video features a dialogue between da Orta and Ruano, a street trader, reflecting on themes of knowledge diversity and interculturality. These ideas remain crucial in addressing today’s biodiversity loss and climate change, reminding us of ancient wisdom in our relationship with nature.
About the Artist
Uriel Orlow’s artistic practice is research-based, process-oriented, and multi-disciplinary, including film, photography, drawing, and sound. He makes single-screen film works, lecture performances, and modular, multi-media installations that focus on specific locations and micro-histories. He often engages with residues of colonialism, material manifestations of memory, and blind spots of representation. He is interested in plants as political actors and witnesses of history.
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