We are glad to inform you that Puck Verkade is joining the 8th Yokohama Triennale Wild grass: Our Lives (Yokohama, Japan) with her video installation Uprooted (2023 - 2024). Climate change and environmental destruction are serious issues that affect the future and survival of human beings. Not only is the natural world beyond our control, but we ourselves are creating a natural environment that seems unsuitable for us. The clue to human survival then, should lie not in altering nature, but rather in emulating it. In this new installation, the artist Puck Verkade focuses on the nature of plants——how various species coexist on the same soil, flexibly change their forms, and live in codependency. Like so, if we can accept the ever-changing world and break free from our rigid ways of thinking and old-fashioned social structures, perhaps that is when the humanoid protagonist in this video will find a safe haven for the first time.
The Biennale will happen between March 15 and 9 June 2024.
