Malus sylvestris AMT.26.03.001 and Malus sylvestris AMT.26.03.002 were presented as part of Arboreal, a group exhibition bringing together artists whose work engages with trees as subject, material, and point of return.
Across painting, sculpture, and mixed media, the exhibition considered the presence of trees not as background, but as something structural, embedded within memory, landscape, and lived experience.
Trees are both familiar and complex. They exist at a scale that can be overlooked, yet hold long temporal and ecological histories. Within the exhibition, they are encountered in different states: observed, reconfigured, abstracted, and reimagined. Each approach shifts how they are understood, moving between representation and interpretation.
The works reflect a sustained attention to form, surface, and internal structure, drawing out details that might otherwise remain unnoticed. In doing so, the exhibition opens a space for reconsideration. What is commonly seen becomes less fixed, and more contingent on how it is approached.
Rather than presenting a single narrative, Arboreal holds multiple perspectives in place, allowing the subject to remain open, and quietly expansive.
