Artist Video

This year’s Artist Video Strand presents the first UK solo exhibition by Korean artist Ellie Kyungran Heo, featuring her latest project Plantarians (2017-2020), in partnership with LUX.

Ellie Kyungran Heo’s work considers the ethics of coexistence, attending to the underlying environmental conflicts in everyday lives. Her reframing of encounters between humans and nature reveals an intricate web of interdependence and questions anthropocentric perspectives. Punctuated by humour and irony, Heo’s works are filled with social and ecological entanglements, in which the multiplicity of discourse is celebrated.

Plantarians (2017 – 2020)

6th November - 11th December, 12 - 4pm

LUX

Plantarians (2017-2020) is a rumination on entangled relationships between humans and plants in urban areas. Divided into episodes, each follows individuals who cultivate, eat and accompany plants in celebration and grief. These everyday activities become strangely unfamiliar through unhurried attention to the moments of survival and resilience of plants between the cracks, on the peripheries o...

A Plant/Human Encounter

Sat 20 Nov, 3:00pm

LUX

On the occasion of Ellie Kyungran Heo’s solo exhibition Plantarians (2017-2020), LUX and the London Korean Film Festival present a botanical lecture and artistic exploration reflecting on encounters between scientists, artists and nature through text, moving image and sound. The first part of the event will be a lecture by biologist Dawn Sanders, discussing human encounters with plants. In this...

Island

27 - 28 November

LUX: Online

A fragmentary portrait of a small island located at the southernmost point of South Korea, Island follows the everyday lives of residents marked by solitude unless interrupted by waves of tourists. At the centre is a mysterious white stray dog that drifts through fluctuating atmospheres and weaves disparate realities, drawing a psychogeographical map of an island as a site of departure and arri...