Follow the Plants is a dense and fascinating new book following plants through their histories, growing seasons, metabolic cycles, literature, art, bodies, archives and collective rituals.
Grounded in a dynamic field of inquiry which show how creative practices emerge through relationships with the territories, ecologies and imaginaries that plants inhabit and bring to life, Follow the Plants collects various artworks, dialogues, roundtables, essays and scores to demonstrate and prompt collective research to trace and map the multiple worlds through which plants circulate and generate meaning for us.
With contributions by AK Wane, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Alana Hunt, Annalee Davis, Banu Subramaniam, Beatriz Paz Jiménez, Christian Thompson, Clare Qualmann, Diana Vieira, Elia Nurvista, Franswa Tibere, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Grace Gloria Denis, Joana Quiroga, Johanes Jamil, Jorge Menna Barreto, Joshua Gebert, Joss Allen, Keg de Souza, Kristina Jones, Kyriaki Goni, Leone Contini, Lucy Davis, Madeleine Collie, Marta Fernández Calvo, Margherita Pevere, Matti Aikio, Mariana Martínez Balvanera, Nathalie Muchamad, Nida Sinnokrot (Sakiya), Nick Anderson, Rain Wu, Rubiane Maia, Shalini Krishan, Sirkku Rosi, Yvonne Billimore, Zayaan Khan and Zheng Bo.
With contributions by:
AK Wane, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Alana Hunt, Annalee Davis, Banu Subramaniam, Beatriz Paz Jiménez, Christian Thompson, Clare Qualmann, Diana Vieira, Elia Nurvista, Franswa Tibere, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Grace Gloria Denis, Joana Quiroga, Johanes Jamil, Jorge Menna Barreto, Joshua Gebert, Joss Allen, Keg de Souza, Kristina Jones, Kyriaki Goni, Leone Contini, Lucy Davis, Madeleine Collie, Marta Fernández Calvo, Margherita Pevere, Matti Aikio, Mariana Martínez Balvanera, Nathalie Muchamad, Nida Sinnokrot (Sakiya), Nick Anderson, Rain Wu, Rubiane Maia, Shalini Krishan, Sirkku Rosi, Yvonne Billimore, Zayaan Khan and Zheng Bo.
Praise for Follow the Plants:
"Both precise and compassionate, Follow the Plants is an exquisite example of what art and research can do at their best. The book and the project it documents centre plants across time and space, alongside their human stories, ensuring the complexity of planetary entanglements refuses the contemporary tendency towards simplification and homogenisation. As a collection of texts, Follow the Plants is as nourishing as it is compelling. Lucia Pietroiusti Head of Research & Emergence at the future Hartwig Museum
"Follow the Plants is an incredibly precious book: a rich entanglement of critical texts, artistic practices and conversations by sharp, generous minds. Moving between plants, politics, environments, sciences and deep histories, it expands to encompass almost any field imaginable, then draws close again to intimate, personal and sensorial experience. As a collective project rooted in dialogue and exchange, it brings together an inspiring group of contributors whose brilliant projects continually open onto other thinkers, practices and worlds. Again and again, the book offers new perspectives on plants, on our relationships with them and each other, and on the words, senses and forms of attention through which we encounter and understand them." Marjolein van der Loo Curator/Artist
Onomatopee, 352pp, 24cm x 16cm, illustrated paperback, 2026
