22.8.–12.10.2025 Galleriat Valo, Katve 1 & 2 Arktikum, Rovaniemi

I Make Trees Visible

In the images, there are people in whom a birch grove lives. The tree-people make visible a multispecies landscape, where humans are just one species among many. Humans often take the liberty to shape the landscape. But could a birch grove, in turn, shape the human?

According to new materialist philosophy of science, we are formed together with nature. We are not separate but this becoming-together influences what and how we are. We are one with the trees, living from and with each other.

It is important to make the more-than-human world visible and to reflect on the relationships between humans and non-humans. Here in the North, we still live in a privileged environment, in a changing landscape marked by the seasons. This landscape affects us. It can nurture us, give us strength, and ground us.

Could we restore and make visible our relationship with trees and what we can learn from them?