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Workshop facilitated as part of the exhibition Att slå rot at Färgfabriken, Stockholm (April-May 2026)
During the exhibition period, the installation invites visitors to slow down: to sit, read, observe, and take part in a growing process of roots, of imagining, of sharing. The entangled selections of books, cuttings, notes, and drawings accumulate over time, making slow processes visible. Visitors are also welcome to write, draw, or add their suggestions to a reading list.-plants/we-are-(like)-plants-2.jpg)
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Photo (1-4): Johan Österholm & Färgfabriken
What if we understood ourselves not as separate from plants, but as continuous with plant life? Japanese ecologist Kinji Imanishi suggests that sweating is one way humans perceive environmental change — a sensory function that may have been inherited from plants. Like plants, we are in constant exchange with our surroundings: air, moisture, temperature, and the ground beneath us. This workshop invites participants to explore these continuities by reimagining the human body and mind through a vegetal perspective. Through observation, touch, and embodied exercises, we explore rooting, sweating, decomposing, growing, and dispersing as shared conditions of life.
During the exhibition period, the installation invites visitors to slow down: to sit, read, observe, and take part in a growing process of roots, of imagining, of sharing. The entangled selections of books, cuttings, notes, and drawings accumulate over time, making slow processes visible. Visitors are also welcome to write, draw, or add their suggestions to a reading list.