The Sowers / Videos

In this series of photos, videos and installations, “strange and makeshift ecosystems emerge in desolate urban spaces, where a lone figure appears to nurture plant life. The figure is the Sower, who attempts to reanimate their lifeless surroundings with small pockets of greenery. As there are no signs of a shelter for the Sower, one assumes they might be some kind of guerrilla gardener. These little gardens are carefully tended, and appear vulnerable to the elements and to intruders, further emphasizing a sense of solitude and persistence, perhaps even a form of resistance. (...) As we face the precipice of environmental disaster, the garden and the urban garden movement could be a way of reposition a collaborative relationship with the natural world. Perhaps the Sower not only grows food, but tends to their psychic nourishment through this contrived connection to nature, searching for a new path amidst the ruins of contemporary society.”

-Catalogue for borderLINE: 2020 Biennial of Contemporary Art