Follow the Plants

Follow the Plants expands from an experimental exchange initiated by Madeleine Collie and developed in dialogue with Yvonne Billimore that situates artists practices within and among the creative lives of plants. The process invites eighteen artists across Americas, Australia, Asia, Europe and South Africa to share their research with another artist, to explore plants, as growing, decaying, metamorphosing beings that shape the places they inhabit. Through the project artists are invited to share long-term durational research practices with another artist. Each artist opens their approaches to thinking, making and learning about the movements of plants, people and practices of kinship across territories.

In the pairing of Kyriaki Goni and Lucy Davis there is a shared interest in agro-speculation through histories of seeds, migrations and exploitation. Kyriaki charts the first extinction of an uncultivable plant through over consumption in Europe, and Lucy stories seeds found in the belly of a taxidermy crocodile, dead for 140 years, currently displayed in the Lee Kong Chian Singapore Natural History Museum.

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