The Book of Flowers

Like a seductive flower calyx, this installation draws you into an alternative evolutionary history of humankind, one in which people and flowers have existed in symbiosis since the beginning of time.

In The Book of Flowers, Agnieszka Polska presents a hypnotic flow of AI-generated images based on analog time-lapses. The archaic-sounding, reassuring voice of British actress Christina Greatrex tells of a world in which flowers grew to gigantic proportions and people passed down stories from generation to generation about the epic journeys of women who crossed continents.

Polska’s lush, subversive origin myth offers an engaging invitation to reflect on the role of storytelling as a tool through which history is shaped.