Palms blow north │hearth

‘A little bit more warming will see their seedlings survive winters.’ 

                                                                                    David Greenwood, researcher

The palm grows along the tropical belt but due to climate change, they plod up to the northern hemispheres. More recently, palms propagate away from the equator as global temperature rises. They reached the foothills of the temperate alps—a fiery scene that indicates planetary changes. Soon, the entire world will have palms. Palms blow north is an art installation responding to our environment in flux. The art exhibition is a work-in-progress that visualises a continuing invasion of the tropics into the temperate zones—or the palm into the white cube. The process manifests the apparent motility and spatiality of the palm that educates on ecological resilience and imposition.

The exhibited artworks hack on the palm’s generosity in hosting a vast and diverse mycobiota. It provides fruits such as the coconut palm, date palm, acai palm, peach…