‘Everywhere’  explores the deep ties between humans and the land, highlighting the often invisible voices of farm workers. Often seen as a silent background to agriculture, they become the heart of the artwork. By adopting a participatory approach, Guyot invites Spier Wine Farm’s employees to share their experience and vision of the soil, animals and ecosystem in which they evolve. By focusing on these relationships, the work moves beyond the technical or utilitarian aspects of agriculture, exploring emotional, ethical and philosophical dimensions, highlighting farm workers’ attachment to the land and to living things.

The questions that arise include: how do these employees perceive their relationship to living things, to nature, and to the agricultural world in an increasingly urbanised and industrialised context? How do these interactions, these daily practices, shape their identity and their vision of the world?

Thank you to the Spier Team: Nicole Engelbrecht, Ruvarashe Wekwete, Zanele Habisa, Purity Mhondiwa, Neliswa Xamle, and Megan McCarthy for their generous contributions of time and insights during the workshop.

After studying literature, Sophie Guyot took up visual art in a self-taught fashion. She works primarily with light and its spatial manifestations. In recent years, she has focused on monumental installations in urban space, researching human attitudes towards the biotope. She authored an internationally successful series of lamps, Lamp-roller, produced in Switzerland since 1999. She exhibits lighting objects outdoors and in gallery spaces, featuring her work at festivals and events. She conducts ecologically coloured workshops to design lighting bodies and installations. Her approach is poetic but concrete – her contact with a material and relationship with the site give rise to her desire and design.

Guyot also received contextual assistance from Zayaan Khan (Artist/researcher specialising in land, food, and seed) and Robyn Humphreys (Historian, Department of Historical Studies, UCT).