2025
Double projection, looped video. 6 minutes. Dimensions variable.
Installation view of Pollinator Pathmaker: British Library Edition (video) in ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ at the British Library, London, 2025. Photograph: © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
Installation view of Pollinator Pathmaker: British Library Edition (video) in ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ at the British Library, London, 2025. Photograph: © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
Installation view of Pollinator Pathmaker: British Library Edition (video) in ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ at the British Library, London, 2025. Photograph: © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
Installation view of Pollinator Pathmaker: British Library Edition (video) in ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ at the British Library, London, 2025. Photograph: © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
Installation view of Pollinator Pathmaker: British Library Edition (video) in ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ at the British Library, London, 2025. Photograph: © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
Installation view of Pollinator Pathmaker: British Library Edition (video) in ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ at the British Library, London, 2025. Photograph: © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
Installation view of Pollinator Pathmaker: British Library Edition (video) in ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ at the British Library, London, 2025. Photograph: © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
What would the British Library piazza on the Euston Road look like if a Pollinator Pathmaker edition were planted there? This video installation, commissioned for ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’, envisages an alternative way we could create the world that includes other species.
Depicting an unrealised Pollinator Pathmaker edition generated to cover the library's forecourt – scheme 7oEAStumJHdqsvvZT4W8wt – you experience a virtual garden composed of Ginsberg's digital paintings of each plant species the algorithm has selected from the Atlantic Europe plant palette.
Installation view of Pollinator Pathmaker: British Library Edition (video) and exhibition kiosk of Pollinator.art in ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ at the British Library, London, 2025. Photograph: © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
Installation view of Pollinator Pathmaker: British Library Edition (video) in ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ at the British Library, London, 2025. Photograph: © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
Installation view of Pollinator Pathmaker: British Library Edition (video) in ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ at the British Library, London, 2025. Photograph: © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
Installation view of a visitor interacting with the Pollinator.art exhibition kiosk in ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ at the British Library, London, 2025. Photograph: © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
Detail of a visitor interacting with the pollinator.art website in ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ at the British Library, London, 2025. Photograph: © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
Seen from the perspective of a foraging insect, rather than from the top-down view of a human, we glide through an otherworldly space where the colouring flips between human view and Ginsberg's 'pollinator vision' filter, changing our perspective.
The video forms part of an expanding series from Ginsberg's award-winning Pollinator Pathmaker artwork.
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Commissioned by the British Library, London, for 'Unearthed: The Power of Gardening', 2025.
Installation view of Pollinator Pathmaker: British Library Edition (video) in ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ at the British Library, London, 2025. Photograph: © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
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