As the title suggests, Follow the Plants does exactly that: it follows plants through history, the changing seasons, the food we eat and even the bodies we live in. It follows them into stories, artworks, archives and shared rituals.
It is a hybrid thing itself, being part-art book, and part-conversation, gathering artworks, essays, interviews, roundtable discussions and scores on its way, and invites us to take up the same kind of exploration ourselves.
Plants in this book are not just scenery. They are companions, collaborators and teachers, shaping the places we live and the ways we imagine the world. Following them leads to fresh ways of thinking about nature, power, knowledge and each other, and about how we all depend on one another.
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
