BOTANICAL ISLANDER
The Botanical Islanders exhibition delves into the island’s botanical entities, each carrying community tales or site-specific narratives.
Through participatory observation methods in ethnography, the exhibition aims to uncover their entanglements and symbiotic
relationships with human caretakers or witnesses, portraying them as non-human islanders. From the tree cultivated by teachers and
students along the Art Academy (福州大学厦门工艺美术学院) of the island in the 1960s to the mango tree on Yongchun Road where
generations once gathered, or the century-old banyan tree nearly felle by a typhoon – the exhibition unveils these ground truths on the island. Adopting a perspective beyond the human, it exhibits a visual narrative that transcends the boundaries between more-than-human species and human existence. Through research and curation methods such a recording, collecting, harvesting, and printing, the intricate symbiotic ecology between island residents and plants is composed, of weaving history and life into a poetic tale of the island.
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The Botanical Islanders exhibition delves into the island’s botanical entities, each carrying community tales or site-specific narratives.
Through participatory observation methods in ethnography, the exhibition aims to uncover their entanglements and symbiotic
relationships with human caretakers or witnesses, portraying them as non-human islanders. From the tree cultivated by teachers and
students along the Art Academy (福州大学厦门工艺美术学院) of the island in the 1960s to the mango tree on Yongchun Road where
generations once gathered, or the century-old banyan tree nearly felle by a typhoon – the exhibition unveils these ground truths on the island. Adopting a perspective beyond the human, it exhibits a visual narrative that transcends the boundaries between more-than-human species and human existence. Through research and curation methods such a recording, collecting, harvesting, and printing, the intricate symbiotic ecology between island residents and plants is composed, of weaving history and life into a poetic tale of the island.
