{"product_id":"weeds-a-germinating-theory-kwan-queenie-li","title":"Weeds: A Germinating Theory, Kwan Queenie Li","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWeeds\u003c\/em\u003e is an essay in image and text that 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.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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 MexicoCity, 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. Weeds, she argues, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMack Books, 160pp, 13cm x 18cm, illustrated hardback, silkscreened cover, 2025\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mack","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56779364958581,"sku":"M-WE-7438-S","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0079\/5974\/0505\/files\/WeedsKQ_a1f9ebc2-e95d-44ab-9073-9c2540e18baf.jpg?v=1771853779","url":"https:\/\/store.magalleria.co.uk\/products\/weeds-a-germinating-theory-kwan-queenie-li","provider":"Magalleria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}