Uriel Orlow. Forest Futurism

Uriel Orlow is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is research-based and process-oriented. For almost ten years, plants have been a regular focus of his work, both witnesses to and protagonists of specific histories that they enable us to uncover or interpret differently, whether it be the blind spots of our colonial heritage, or our relationship to the natural world. For his show in MCBA’s Project Space, Orlow is presenting a new part of a multifaceted project he began in South Tyrol, in particular a film shot especially for the exhibition that explores the deep time of climate change and our ties to the more-than-human world. The artist has collaborated with palaeobotanists and climatologists, as well as with children from a forest kindergarten, not only to understand climate transformations but also to imagine new forms of coexistence with nature. 

Uriel Orlow (*1973 in Zurich, lives and works between Lisbon, London and Zurich) is an artist whose practice is often in dialogue with other disciplines and people. His installations focus on specific locations, micro-histories and forms of haunting. Working across photography, film, drawing and sound his works bring different image-regimes and narrative modes into correspondence.