Salted Earth

Name: Salted Earth
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ISBN: 9781835952115

Poetics of Place and Migration Through Four Artistic Journeys

Katy Beinart (University of Brighton, UK)

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English

Intellect Books
01 May 2026

Art Forms; Individual artists, art monographs; Material culture; Travel writing

Discover the poetics of salt, where art, memory, and migration transform our understanding of this everyday substance.

While histories of salt have long emphasized its central role in trade, power, and capitalism, is that the only way to understand this everyday substance? In Salted Earth, artist and researcher Katy Beinart offers a fresh perspective, exploring the poetics of salt. Through a series of journeys to South Africa, Lithuania and Russia, Portugal, and Haiti, Beinart and her collaborators investigate the everyday rituals and cultural meanings of salt in diverse contexts. In her work, salt becomes a medium through which large-scale histories of migration, trade, empire, slavery, and colonialism—as well as deeply personal relationships, emotional geographies, memory, and intercultural connections—are symbolized and reimagined.

Drawing on fiction, poetry, and visual art, alongside family history, travel writing, trade archives, and artistic process, Beinart builds a rich, interdisciplinary portrait of salt as both a material and a cultural symbol. These journeys and embodied artistic practices open a sensorial and situated way of understanding material entanglements, where knowledge emerges through movement, encounter, and acts of making. Salted Earth offers valuable insights for students and researchers in art, creative writing, cultural history and geography, memory studies, and across the wider fields of aesthetics and the humanities.

By: Katy Beinart (University of Brighton UK)
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 613g
ISBN: 9781835952115
ISBN 10: 1835952119
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 May 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures Acknowledgements Note on Translation and Terms Prologue Introduction: In Search of Salted Earth Departure and return The poetics of salt Diasporic artistic mobilities Sites and relations – Artistic practices 1. Journey to South Africa (and Back): Don’t Look Back (2010)/Memory Preservation Salts (2011) Part 1: Journey to South Africa Part 2: Memory Preservation Salts (2011) (return) 2. Journey to Eastern Europe (and back): Khlebosolny/Bread and Salt (2012) Part 1: Journey to Eastern Europe Part 2: Brixton Dinners (return) 3. Journey to Portugal (and Back): Salinas/Saltworks (2013) Part 1: Journey to Portugal Part 2: Saltworks (return) 4. Journey to Haiti (and Back): Goute Sel/A Taste of Salt (2013) Part 1: Journey to Haiti Part 2: Salt residues (return) Conclusion Bibliography Index

Katy Beinart is a Brighton-based artist, researcher, and educator whose work includes sculpture, installation, drawing, film, and performance, and explores themes of memory, migration, identity, heritage, and place. She trained as an architect in Oxford and London and has since gone on develop an interdisciplinary artistic practice and to work on projects and commissions around the UK and abroad.