Roots/Racines

Institut finlandais, Paris
2025

Japanese washi paper
Wood-based viscose

1500 × 320 cm
590⅝ × 125⅞ in.


Roots/Racines suspends a fifteen-metre pine tree from the ceiling — uprooted but still alive, held in the air. The tree fills the room from above. Standing beneath it is something between shelter and vertigo.

The work draws on the twisted pines in the paintings of Pekka Halonen. Here the tree becomes something more uncertain — lifted from the ground, roots still intact.

The material follows its own logic. Washi paper yarn and wood-based viscose — the tree is made from the material of trees. The surface absorbs light rather than reflecting it, giving the work a quiet luminosity, as if the forms were emerging from within.

Roots/Racines was first shown at the Institut finlandais in Paris, 2025–2026, in dialogue with the exhibition Pekka Halonen: An Ode to Finland at the Petit Palais.