A drawing series presented at the group exhibition EN FÖRLAMNING AV ENS INRE KÄNSLA FÖR RIKTNING, at Övre Galleriet/Konstnärshuset, Stockholm (April 2024)
Photo: Giulia Cairone
Kobo Abe's Dendrocacalia (1949) exposes the intertwined connections of botanical life and Japan's colonial modernity, criticizing the utopian vision and denial of colonial violence associated with metamorphosis. This drawing series corresponds to the themes of Dendrocacalia as a means of highlighting contrasting perspectives on plant metamorphosis and reflecting upon the interior world of plant life.
Through the repetitive practice of drawing, Tsuchimoto extends her subjectivity into the botanical realm — meditating on rootedness, on the surrounding environment, and on slow temporality. Following the Threads manifests a traceable method of making: a spontaneous, entangled web constructed as a resistance to anthropocentric worldviews, reconfiguring relations among and across species and bringing human consciousness into contact with nonhuman subjectivity. The drawing is ongoing — intended to multiply consistently while maintaining the possibility of completing a circle from within its own complicated, tangled lines.
