May 10 2025

These Seasons | Reveries of Collective Walkers with Uriel Orlow

Sat | 2-3PM

For the next installment of These Seasons, Swiss Institute (SI) is pleased to present Reveries of Collective Walkers, a guided neighborhood walk and collective reading performance led by artist Uriel Orlow, in collaboration with artist and gardener Simone Frazier. This program emerges from Orlow’s Welcome Weeds project (2024-ongoing), which was commissioned on the occasion of Spora. 

The event will begin with a walkthrough of Orlow’s work at SI, which will be followed by an ambulatory tour of the East Village with Frazier that identifies plant species in public space and their varied medicinal, culinary, and mystical associations. The event will conclude in a local community garden with participants individually reading selected texts, which feature botanical species as protagonists, to plants.

These Seasons is an ongoing transdisciplinary public program that invites artists, scholars and writers to explore theories of nature, landscape, ecology, human and non-human life forms and climate action.

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.

Uriel Orlow is a Swiss-born artist with a diasporic background who lives and works between Lisbon, London and Zurich. His work has been presented at major international survey exhibitions including at the 54^th Venice Biennale, Manifesta 9 and 12, as well as at biennials in Berlin, Dakar, Kochi, Taipei, Sharjah, Moscow, Kathmandu, Guatemala and at museums and galleries in London, Paris, New York, Lisbon, Zurich, Chicago, Athens, Madrid, Cairo, Istanbul, Mexico-City, Bejing, Toronto, Melbourne, New Delhi and elsewhere. In 2023 he received the Swiss Grand Prix for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim and in 2017 he received the Sharjah Biennial Prize.

Simone Frazier is an artist,  gardener, and researcher based in the East Village of New York City.  She studied fine art at Bard and Hunter Colleges, and landscape architecture at City College.  Since 2014, she has been designing and maintaining urban gardens with a cohort of artists as assistants, clients, and collaborators under the business name Open Source Landscape.  Her engagement with plants, gardening, and compost is derived from the freely available possibilities for sustenance and delight within the cycles of growth and decay offered by the vegetal.

Image: Uriel Orlow, Reveries of Collective Walkers, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.