Protected Trees (Mesh Festival)

In Seoul, old trees can be officially registered as protected. Each one has a file: its size, its age, its location, the order protecting it, and the record of how it fell ill and was treated.

"Protected Trees" turns that data into an installation shaped like a trunk and a canopy. It makes the bureaucratic care given to individual trees something you can see and move around.

The work asks what it means to regulate and label a living thing inside a city — and what we miss when we treat trees as passive objects rather than as part of urban life.

Participated as an exhibiting artist, gave a presentation and was a panellist in a panel discussion at the conference.

Mesh – Festival of Art and Technology
Edition 2026: Infrastructures of Care
14–18 October 2026
Dreispitz, Basel

Mesh is a joint initiative by HEK (Haus der Elektronischen Künste), iart Basel, and Basel School of Design and Art (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW)