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PERENNIAL LAND - The Data Forest, 2024

An Immersive Cinematic Art Installation

Conceived and Directed by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger

Original music composition by Nana Simopoulos

Cinematography, Editing and Visual Effects by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger

Additional Visual Effects by Caryn Heilman - Spatial Sound Design by Ander Agudo

"Perennial Land" is an experiential installation focused on Climate Justice that immerses us into the beauty of Earth's landscapes and awakens us to the importance of data-driven insights into our impact on nature.

Pictures from Installation at Hall of Fame Gallery - March 2024

Perennial Land - The Data Forest is an experiential installation that combines the beauty of various forest environments with the importance of data-driven insights into a human's impact on nature. Stepping into a space transformed into a multi-climate forest, tech and tools about resources and equity are seamlessly integrated into the environment like trees. We want to push aside the modern habit of thinking of nature–culture divide, decolonize technology and highlight the ways landscape contributes to social, political and psychic ideas of space. The vulnerability of the environment is directly related to that of certain communities. Nature does not need us. We need nature.

"Gathering is an ethic at the heart of Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger’s looped video installation, Perennial Land: The Data Forest (2024), which invites its audiences into a restful, contemplative, and immersive space, surrounded on three sides by lush images of Earth’s forest environments. These images are interspersed with climate data and scenes of human-planetary relations gone awry, the visual grammar of the Anthropocene. Cabrera and Duverger specialize in public, interactive video works that break down the “uni-directionality” of artistic communication, so that audience members are positioned more as creative collaborators than an inert “audience.”18 Even as Perennial Land serves harsh reminders of anthropogenic destruction, it also summons hope for other ways of being. Over-stating human destruction can reinforce an ideological binary of nature/culture and obscure long histories of reciprocal care on this planet; Perennial Land, on the contrary, both hails and builds a community invested in responsible co-existence." — Introduction: Care and Climate Justice by Sarah Hamill and Izzy Lockhart, Care and Climage Justice Catalogue, 2024

COP16 - United Nations Conference on Biodiversity, Cali, Colombia
Nature Positive Pavilion, Blue Zone

October 25, 2024 - All Day

"Nature needs us, we need nature. We are part of nature; together we sustain life." Come and discover this amazing immersive experience as presented by the Accountability Accelerator, part of the Global Commons Alliance. Step into a space transformed into a multi-climate forest, tech and tools about resources and equity are seamlessly integrated into the environment like trees. This exhibition is made possible by the contribution of GCA Accountability Accelerator - Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

"We are excited to support one of our latest grantees, 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁, an experiential installation created by artists 𝗟𝗮𝗶𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗿𝗮 and 𝗜𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗗𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗿, who have been collaborating for the past 15 years. This immersive video installation invites the audience into a contemplative space, surrounded by the dynamic imagery of Earth’s forests. Interspersed with climate and nature data, and scenes showing the profound impact of human activity on our planet, 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱 creates a powerful visual narrative about nature loss. The installation demonstrates how art and technology can come together to raise awareness and inspire action to protect our ecosystems. We invite you to experience this thought-provoking installation that will be open all day. Come and explore the intricate connections between nature, data, and the urgent need for environmental action." — Global Commons Alliance, October 23, 2024

United Nations COP 16, Cali, Colombia with the Global Commons Alliance Accountability Accelerator - October 2024

Treehouse NDSM Art Park II: Voice of Nature

TT. Neveritaweb 57, 1033 WB Amsterdam, the Netherlands

September 12 - October 6, 2024

Art Park II: Voice of Nature is a group show that continues a series we initiated in 2023, which focuses on urban nature in relation to the Municipality of Amsterdam’s project of establishing a park in the NDSM area. The specific theme of this year's exhibition, Voice of Nature, delves into the concept of granting rights to more-than-humans. Could we listen to what nature, including plants, birds and insects need? Can nature be granted the same rights as humans? In an era marked by environmental crises and biodiversity loss, the 14 artists participating in this exhibition attempt, through different approaches, to reframe our thoughts and interactions with the natural world and advocate for its value. This exhibition is made possible by the contribution of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst

Hall of Fame Art Gallery at Bronx Community College, curated by Patricia Cazorla
2155 University Avenue, Bronx, New York, USA
March 21, 2024 - May 16, 2024 (free entrance)

Perennial Land - The Data Forest was part of the Care and Climate Justice exhibitions series at Sarah Lawrence College and Bronx Community College with the support of the Mellon Foundation. Care and Climate Justice is a series of exhibitions that take place at Sarah Lawrence College and Bronx Community College in winter and spring 2024. The exhibitions are funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, which supports the Sarah Lawrence Interdisciplinary Collaborative on the Environment (SLICE). Against the urgency and presentism suggested by “climate crisis,” these exhibitions turn to responses that might be considered careful and slow, and that shed light on the long histories of environmental devastation on this continent shaped by settler colonialism and racial capitalism. As both an ethic and aesthetic, care takes the form of grief and remembrance, of attention and refusal, of adaptation and kinship, and of expansive imagination and storytelling in anticipation and prefiguration of other futures. 

March 26: Care and Climate Justice Artists’ Roundtable - Heimbold Visual Arts Center
May 2: Perennial Land - Artist Talk - Hall of Fame Gallery, Bliss Hall,CUNY-BCC

Trailer for the Video Installation

Care and Climate Justice Catalogue - Interview of Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger by Meena Mangroo - Co-edited by Sarah Hamill and Izzy Lockhart

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