This project explores seeds as cultural heritage and common good – shaped by both human and non-human influences. Through visits of dedicated seed keepers and community seed banks, she collects stories around practices of preserving, developing, and exchanging seeds. As the work unfolds, seeds become trusted guides and the embodiment of resilience.

Highlighting the drastic loss of crop diversity due to industrial farming techniques and market concentration, Baumgartner reflects on the cyclical nature of seeds and their role in creating bonds between human and plant life. Imagining plantiness, her work invites emotional connection as a pathway to transformation, portraying gestures of quiet resistance against the erosion of cultivated biodiversity.

During the foodculture days Biennale, a selection of the photographs will be displayed in an open-air exhibition in the public space of Vevey and la Tour-de-Peilz. Check the map here.