Rooted Beings /
Index Of Shapes
Eduardo Navarro
Location: Mallet Gardens and Wellcome Collection, London
Suit development: soft tissue studio
Photography: Wellcome Collection 2022
and soft tissue studio
handsewn to a power mesh undersuit,
the under skin is hand painted in green - vibrant like fresh young bark breaking through the fissures of old growth.
The bark print is derived from photos of the 200 year old plane tree who lives in Coram’s Fields, London. The tree skin contrasts from shaggy dry fissures to shiny and smooth green. The suits mirror that textural difference between vitality and agedness.
The exhibition Rooted Beings was a group show at Wellcome Collection that described the intelligence of plant beings. The treesuits were designed to embody the plane tree; one version of the suit was displayed within the exhibit at Wellcome Collection and later there was a performance with 5 treesuits in Mallet Gardens.
Produced by Vasanthi Argouin
Pattern cutter Jack Davey
To learn more about the work see the website of Eduardo Navarro