Uriel Orlow lives and works in London and Lisbon. His practice is research-based, process-oriented and multidisciplinary, including film, photography, drawing and sound. She is known for her single-screen film work, lecture performances and modular, multi-media installations that focus on specific locations and micro-histories, and inscribe different regimes of image and narrative modes. His work is concerned with plants as remnants of colonialism and as political actors.
Uriel Orlow's work has also been presented in several international survey exhibitions, including the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), Manifesta 9 and 12, Genk/Palermo (2012, 2018), Kathmandu Triennale 2077 (2022), British Art Show 9 (2021-2002). Thailand Biennale (2021-2022), Vienna Biennale (2021), Taipei Biennale (2020), Lubumbashi Biennale (2019), 13th Sharjah Biennale (2017), 7th Moscow Biennale (2017), EVA Biennale (2016, 2014), 8th Mercosul Biennale, Brazil (2011). Monographic publications include Conversations with Leaves (ArchiveBooks, 2020), Soil Affinities (Shelter Press, 2019) and TheatrumBotanicum (Sternberg Press, 2018).

Portrait Masimba Sasa

Photograph: Norbert Miguletz
photo: Stefan Altenburger
photo: Uriel Orlow

URIEL ORLOW
SWITZERLAND

Devotion, 2021.
Single-channel video, 1 minute 20 seconds.

Devotion is a triumphant song dedicated to the symbiotic relationship between the root systems of plants and fungi, an under-recognised foundation of our lives. The root systems of these plants and fungi are the kingdom