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Back to Earth 2022

22 June 2022 – 18 September 2022

Serpentine North

Back to Earth is Serpentine’s long-term, interdisciplinary, artistic programme responding to the urgent climate crisis. The programme features an exhibition staged at Serpentine North from 22 June to 18 September 2022, with further works situated in Serpentine’s restaurant The Magazine and further afield in Kensington Gardens. Back to Earth also features an extensive live programme with activations during the exhibition and for the next two years.

Evoking responses to the climate emergency and spotlighting a multitude of durational perspectives from across the globe, Back to Earth reflects how we can learn from diverse experiences to create change.

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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Pollinator Pathmaker, Serpentine Edition Garden, 2022. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Karrabing Film Collective, The Family (A Zombie Movie), 2021. Three-screen colour video, sound. 29 minutes. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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An installation view of the artwork 'IKUM: Drying Temple', which is a large structure made of reclaimed pine frame on which dyed cotton tensiles are stretched and medicinal plants are attached by cable ties.
Tabita Rezaire/AMAKABA and Yussef Agbo-Ola/OLANIYI STUDIO, IKUM: Drying Temple, 2022. Dyed cotton tensiles, reclaimed pine frame, medicinal plants, recycled cellulose cable ties. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Tabita Rezaire/AMAKABA and Yussef Agbo-Ola/OLANIYI STUDIO, IKUM: Drying Temple, 2022. Dyed cotton tensiles, reclaimed pine frame, medicinal plants, recycled cellulose cable ties. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Tabita Rezaire/AMAKABA and Yussef Agbo-Ola/OLANIYI STUDIO, IKUM: Drying Temple, 2022. Dyed cotton tensiles, reclaimed pine frame, medicinal plants, recycled cellulose cable ties. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Agnes Denes, The Future is Fragile, Handle With Care, 2021. Dye sublimation print on polyester flag material with blue nylon appliqué. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Carolina Caycedo, This Land is a Poem of Ten Rivers Healing, 2022. Latex print on PVC free wallpaper. Dineo Seshee Bopape and Katy’taya Catitu Tayassu, motsopa: sonore (Clay and sound), 2021-2022. Different types of clay, earth from Kent, sound. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Carolina Caycedo, This Land is a Poem of Ten Rivers Healing, 2022. Latex print on PVC free wallpaper. Dineo Seshee Bopape and Katy’taya Catitu Tayassu, motsopa: sonore (Clay and sound), 2021-2022. Different types of clay, earth from Kent, sound. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Carolina Caycedo, This Land is a Poem of Ten Rivers Healing, 2022. Latex print on PVC free wallpaper. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Carolina Caycedo, This Land is a Poem of Ten Rivers Healing (detail), 2022. Latex print on PVC free wallpaper. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Brian Eno, Making gardens out of silence in the uncanny valley, 2022. Sound installation. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Brian Eno, Making gardens out of silence in the uncanny valley, 2022. Sound installation. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Various artists, Posters for Back to Earth. Digital print on recycled paper. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Dineo Seshee Bopape and Katy’taya Catitu Tayassu, motsopa: sonore (Clay and sound), 2021-2022. Different types of clay, earth from Kent, sound. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Dineo Seshee Bopape and Katy’taya Catitu Tayassu, motsopa: sonore (Clay and sound), 2021-2022. Different types of clay, earth from Kent, sound. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Karrabing Film Collective, The Family (A Zombie Movie), 2021. Three-screen colour video, sound. 29 minutes. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Giles Round, Untitled (Wayfinding), 2022. Surplus wood (Oak, Ash, Beech, Elm, Maple, Walnut, Mahogany, Southern Yellow Pine, Iroko, Sapele, Douglas Fir, Pine, Cherry, Teak, Coconut, Paduak, African Walnut, African Whitewood, Bubinga, Wenge, Purplewood, Zebrano), mirror polished steel. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Giles Round, Untitled (Wayfinding), 2022. Surplus wood (Oak, Ash, Beech, Elm, Maple, Walnut, Mahogany, Southern Yellow Pine, Iroko, Sapele, Douglas Fir, Pine, Cherry, Teak, Coconut, Paduak, African Walnut, African Whitewood, Bubinga, Wenge, Purplewood, Zebrano), mirror polished steel. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Giles Round, Untitled (Wayfinding), 2022. Surplus wood (Oak, Ash, Beech, Elm, Maple, Walnut, Mahogany, Southern Yellow Pine, Iroko, Sapele, Douglas Fir, Pine, Cherry, Teak, Coconut, Paduak, African Walnut, African Whitewood, Bubinga, Wenge, Purplewood, Zebrano), mirror polished steel. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Pollinator Pathmaker, Serpentine Edition Garden, 2022. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Pollinator Pathmaker, Serpentine Edition Garden, 2022. Back to Earth exhibition at Serpentine North (22 June – 18 September). Installation view. © readsreads.info. Courtesy Serpentine.
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Seba Calfuqueo, Tray Tray Ko, video, 6’13, 2022, film still, photo by: Sebastian Melo.
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By earth, sea and air we came, video, 18 minutes, Adham Faramawy, 2021. © Serpentine and the artist.
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Sun & Sea. © Elon Shoenholz.
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Seba Calfuqueo, Tray Tray Ko, video, 6’13, 2022, film still, photo by: Sebastian Melo. © Serpentine and the artist.
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By earth, sea and air we came, video, 18 minutes, Adham Faramawy, 2021. © Serpentine and the artist.
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By earth, sea and air we came, video, 18 minutes, Adham Faramawy, 2021. © Serpentine and the artist.
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Himali Singh Soin, Static Range, performance installation, 2021. Maat Museum. © Serpentine and the artist.
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Fertile Souls. © Bones Tan Jones.
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Pebble collector's inventory of goods, Yene, Senegal, 2020. © Manthia Diawara.
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