HYPERSYNTHESIS (populus alba)

2025 

white plastic trees, orange strip light, black sand, blue antifreeze, steel basin.

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Installation view at 'Fractured Continuum' (9 March - 30 April 2025), Sound Art Museum, Beijing.​

(Organised by Elsewhere Culture and supported by Dulwich College Beijing.)

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Following a fascination with the countless neat rows of winter-bare trees on the sides of all Beijing main roads, this work stems from brief research into urban forestry, and particularly the local planting of populus alba (white poplar), a non-native invasive species introduced over the last 20 years.

Vampiric vegetation growing from a pool of antifreeze and sand, lit by an artificial sun, and auroras which no longer dance above the atmosphere. This installation channels a future in which the Earth has been stripped of its resources, and whose magnetic field has been disturbed beyond repair, while imagining the future of industrial farming.