Talk Event
On Ethnobotany: Recalling Forgotten Tastes
📅 17 April 2026, 18:20- 19:00
📍 Copeland Gallery, London SE15 3SN
💬 English
🎫 Free entry.
🔗 As seating is limited, we recommend booking your spot in advance.
Syarifah Nadhirah, author and illustrator of 'Recalling Forgotten Tastes', will be sharing the process of making the book as part of her research on edible and non- edible plants in Malaysia.
This talk will also touch on the ecological knowledge and lived experiences of the Orang Asli community, based on their relationship to the land and access to forest patches. Some plants are native and embedded in their palate, while others such as 'ubi kayu' have been adapted, opening up a conversation about the evolution of tastes and eating what is available in a given place, season, and time.
Speaker:
Syarifah Nadhirah is a visual artist, and currently pursuing her Master's in Environmental Anthropology at SOAS, London. She self-published a book, Recalling Forgotten Tastes, which documents edible and non-edible plants through the perspectives of the members of the Semai and Temuan Orang Asli communities in Peninsular Malaysia. Her solo exhibition, Measure of Seeds, explores plant migration in colonial plantation systems. Her work also draws on printmaking, material culture, and archival art to connect botanical landscapes with seed guardianship and food security.
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