The Plant #22
230 x 300 mm, 240 pages
Barcelona, Spain (English-language)
First published 2010
Editor-in-chief: Cristina Merino
Creative direction: Isabel Merino and Carol Montpart
‘A curious observer of ordinary plants and other greenery’
Always a joy to receive and carefully leaf through, The Plant is full of stories branching off in this way and that after beginning in the earth, roots, leaves and flowers.
For this 22nd issue, The Plant ponders over how the overstimulation of today's world has made us forget to take a moment and observe beauty, vulnerability, temporality and even the mundane. A range of respectable artist and writer features inside with the likes of Wolfgang Tillmans, Fina Miralles, Peter Lindbergh, Cynthia Fan, their relationships to nature and how that manifests through their practice.
From Nigel Shafran comparing bird nests to what we, as humans, identify as home or Lena Emery documenting the melting of the glaciers through fragile fabrics, The Plant #22 is full of calming, slow-paced story-telling.