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Growing Tree
BY
Annelie Wallin

Scene 1

A white canvas fills the entire frame. A hand enters with a brush and begins to paint on the sheet, revealing a beautiful motif: a plant resembling coral. The canvas vanishes, and we understand that the landscape is composed of organisms that grow and breathe, living a life of their own.

Scene 2

Soon, the Hand is back with its canvas and brush, covering the landscape and painting a new motif. The landscape exists perpetually behind the canvas, leading its own life with its own agenda. The Hand, with its canvas and brush, seeks to dictate what is visible and how it should appear. A battle between freedom and control surges back and forth.

Scene 3

It concludes with the Hand painting over the landscape with white, returning us to where we began.

Keywords Landscape, Animation
Prod. format
Duration 00:06:27
Color Color
Sound Silent
Year 2025
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About the artist

Annelie Wallin

Annelie Wallin is a Stockholm-based artist working across sculpture, video, and participatory installations. Her practice explores time, labor, and value hierarchies, often using materials—such as biological slime molds—as co-creators. By setting specific premises for both organisms and humans, she investigates the interplay between freedom, control, and the transformation of space.”

Wallin works with drawing, sculpture, photography, and video. She is interested in processes where art becomes a means to explore time, labor, value hierarchies, and established notions— using art as a method to dissolve and merge these into new formations and positions.

She often wants materials to create conditions to which one must relate, in the same way that she can create the conditions for a participatory and process-based work. By establishing certain premises, Wallin invite others to act within them, as seen in the work ‘Gistnande’ or when she enticed a slime mold to spell a certain message like ‘Hello World’.

Wallin regularly hold solo exhibitions at IDI:galleri. She creates outdoor participatory and process based art installations and also work with public art commissions. Since 2015, She has worked with slime molds through photography and video, studying them and drawing inspiration from their essence and expression. She has sought to capture their movement in drawings and sculptures, particularly in the exhibition ‘In Motion’ (I rörelse) in 2021.

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