David Claerbout Backwards Growing Tree (Sunset oranges), 2025
Ink, pastel, and gouache on paper
75,3 x 119,5 cm (unframed)
83,5 x 127,5 x 4,7 cm (framed)
83,5 x 127,5 x 4,7 cm (framed)
Executed in ink, gouache and pastel on paper, the work belongs to a series of sketches made by David Claerbout in conjunction with his video Backwards Growing Tree which digitally rendered the imagined development of a tree during a five-year period in a specific location in the Italian countryside in the province of Parma. The process is presented backwards, that is, the film begins with the fully grown tree and ends with its disappearance, before it was planted, and takes five years to screen.