The Birch Tree Family
Olana Light
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This living birch will walk through the city center on April 24th in the afternoon and April 25th in the morning and afternoon. We don't know where, we don't know when, but whoever looks for it will probably find it...
The Birch Tree Family is a performance linked to the photography exhibition Searching for a Place to Belong, on show at Can Trincheria from 10 to 26 April.
Itinerant show through the city center.
This living birch tree will take to the streets on the afternoon of Friday 24 April and on the morning and afternoon of Saturday 25 April. Come to Sismògraf and find it!
Olana Light becomes a living birch tree sculpture – rooted yet wandering. A human tree that walks the streets of the city and invites us to reflect on our bond with nature. The Birch Tree Family is a celebration of the fragility of life and a quiet call to care for the world around us – a project that follows cycles of renewal and transformation in which women, like trees, embody resilience, growth and vulnerability.
Olana Light is a multidisciplinary artist based in Portsmouth, UK, working across sculpture, performance and moving images. Her work explores the relationship between humans and the natural world, with a focus on transformation, belonging and interconnection. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and has received numerous awards, including the Contemporary Art Society’s Emerging Sculptors Award (2023) and an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice grant (2024). Her performances take art into public spaces, opening it up to new audiences and inviting reflection on our connection with nature.
With the collaboration of: Arbola Fest (Iruña)
